Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy: performance of a rapid screening tool.
CONCLUSIONS: The SASS alone has acceptable reliability and validity, but limited predictive values. A new tool, combining the SASS and other patient characteristics (i.e., age, BMI, and bedpartner-reported snoring and breathing pauses), demonstrated improved sensitivity and specificity, and thus may have greater utility in clinical practice for predicting OSA in pregnant women.
PMID: 30232680 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Sleep and Breathing - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Balserak BI, Zhu B, Grandner MA, Jackson N, Pien GW Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research
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