作者
Nigel McArdle, Stuart King, Kelly Shepherd, Vanessa Baker, Dinesh Ramanan, Sahisha Ketheeswaran, Peter Bateman, Alison Wimms, Jeff Armitstead, Glenn Richards, David Hillman, Peter Eastwood
发表日期
2015/11/1
期刊
Sleep
卷号
38
期号
11
页码范围
1775-1781
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Study Objectives
To assess the efficacy of a novel female-specific autotitrating continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) algorithm (AutoSet for her, AfH) in premenopausal women relative to a standard autotitrating algorithm (AutoSet, S9) (ResMed Ltd., Bella Vista, New South Wales, Australia).
Design
Prospective randomised crossover noninferiority trial.
Setting
Tertiary hospital sleep clinic and university research sleep laboratory.
Participants
20 female patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) established on long-term CPAP treatment.
Interventions
Treatment with 1 night each of AfH and AutoSet while monitored with overnight laboratory-based polysomnography (PSG); order randomly allocated.
Measurements and Results
The primary outcome variables were the apnea-hypopnea …
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