@article{JTD32686,
author = {Riken Chen and Wang Liu and Junfen Cheng and Zhenzhen Zheng and Manqing Ba and Min Peng and Qizhong He and Huajing Yang and Tao Chen and Cheng Hong},
title = {The No-apnea score vs. the other five questionnaires in screening for obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in patients with cerebral infarction},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {11},
number = {10},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Given the growing number of patients suspected of having obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), screening methods have become increasingly important for sleep clinics. We analyzed the clinical value of the No-apnea score which is used to diagnose OSAHS in patients with cerebral infarction, and compared the accuracy of the No-apnea score with the accuracy of the NoSAS score, the STOP-Bang questionnaire (SBQ), the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), the STOP questionnaire (STOP) and the Berlin questionnaire (BQ).
Methods: Between January 2014 and December 2018, a total of 221 cerebral infarction patients, suspected of having OSAHS, underwent the polysomnography (PSG) for one night at the sleep medical center of Guangdong Medical University Affiliated Second Hospital. The PSG data were collected and analyzed with the NoSAS score, the SBQ, the ESS, the STOP, the BQ, and patients’ demographic information. Based on the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), the patients were classified into four groups: the normal group (},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/32686}
}