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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
Excessive daytime sleepiness, the most prevalent symptom associated with the OSAS, is hypothesized to result from either fragmentation of sleep or hypoxemia during sleep. Measures of nocturnal sleep, respiration during sleep, and daytime sleepiness in 466 patients with apnea were collected to evaluate these two hypotheses. The various parameters were submitted to correlation and multiple regression analyses to predict daytime sleepiness as measured by the MSLT. The RAI, which measures the number of arousals from sleep associated with respiratory disturbances (best fragmentation correlation), produced a higher correlation with MSLT scores than did TMES (best hypoxemia correlation); however, the measures were highly intercorrelated, and multiple regression analyses to determine which parameters independently predicted MSLT showed the single best predictor to be the RAI. Additional independent variance in MSLT score was explained by TST and PSG1. Measures of hypoxemia provided little or no independent predictive information. These data support the hypothesis that sleep fragmentation is an important determinant of daytime sleepiness in patients with apnea.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0012-3692
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1202-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Predictors of objective level of daytime sleepiness in patients with sleep-related breathing disorders.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit 48202.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.