作者
Brendan T Keenan, Jinyoung Kim, Bhajan Singh, Lia Bittencourt, Ning-Hung Chen, Peter A Cistulli, Ulysses J Magalang, Nigel McArdle, Jesse W Mindel, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Erna Sif Arnardottir, Lisa Kristin Prochnow, Thomas Penzel, Bernd Sanner, Richard J Schwab, Chol Shin, Kate Sutherland, Sergio Tufik, Greg Maislin, Thorarinn Gislason, Allan I Pack
发表日期
2018/3
期刊
Sleep
卷号
41
期号
3
页码范围
zsx214
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Study Objectives
A recent study of patients with moderate–severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in Iceland identified three clinical clusters based on symptoms and comorbidities. We sought to verify this finding in a new cohort in Iceland and examine the generalizability of OSA clusters in an international ethnically diverse cohort.
Methods
Using data on 972 patients with moderate–severe OSA (apnea–hypopnea index [AHI] ≥ 15 events per hour) recruited from the Sleep Apnea Global Interdisciplinary Consortium (SAGIC), we performed a latent class analysis of 18 self-reported symptom variables, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
Results
The original OSA clusters of disturbed sleep, minimally symptomatic, and excessively sleepy replicated among 215 SAGIC patients from Iceland. These clusters also generalized to 757 patients from …
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