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A retrospective study on obstructive sleep apnea

  • Ricardo São João*
  • , Andreia Cardoso
  • , Tiago Dias Domingues
  • , Marta Fradinho
  • , Vânia Silva
  • , Amélia Feliciano
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related breathing disorder with worldwide increasing prevalence. Polysomnography is the traditional gold standard for the diagnosis of OSA, but the fact that it is a complex, time-consuming, and expensive test contributes to the underdiagnosis of this pathology. For this reason, one usually opts for the simpler, less labor-intensive, and cheaper cardiorespiratory sleep test for the diagnosis of this syndrome. The manual analysis of these tests, which usually involves two or more qualified observers, is one of the aspects that most contributes to the amount of time spent in the analysis and, consequently, to diagnostic delay. Automatic analysis emerges as a faster alternative to the manual analysis. Based on a sample of 2559 patients monitored by the Pulmonology Department—Sleep Unit of the Hospital da Luz Setúbal during the period 2011–2019, this research concludes that there is no agreement between the manual and automatic readings of two popular OSA classification indexes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Developments in Statistics and Data Science - SPE2021
EditorsRegina Bispo, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues, Russell Alpizar-Jara, Miguel de Carvalho
PublisherSpringer
Pages281-292
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031127656
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event25th Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, SPE 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 13 Oct 202116 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics
Volume398
ISSN (Print)2194-1009
ISSN (Electronic)2194-1017

Conference

Conference25th Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, SPE 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period13/10/2116/10/21

Keywords

  • Association measures
  • Automatic reading
  • Concordance measures
  • Manual reading
  • OSA

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