The discriminative power of STOP-Bang as a screening tool for suspected obstructive sleep apnea in clinically referred patients: considering gender differences.
CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that gender-specific consideration needs to be incorporated into the application of STOP-Bang in a clinically referred patient population with a higher risk of OSA. Alternative scoring systems may improve predictive performance of STOP-Bang.
PMID: 29691799 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Mou J, Pflugeisen BM, Crick BA, Amoroso PJ, Harmon KT, Tarnoczy SF, Shirley Ho S, Mebust KA Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research