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SUBMITTER: Mihaicuta S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7825682 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mihaicuta Stefan S Udrescu Lucreţia L Udrescu Mihai M Toth Izabella-Anita IA Topîrceanu Alexandru A Pleavă Roxana R Ardelean Carmen C
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20210107 1
We explored the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients' anthropometric measures and the CPAP treatment response. To that end, we processed three non-overlapping cohorts (D1, D2, D3) with 1046 patients from four sleep laboratories in Western Romania, including 145 subjects (D1) with one-night CPAP therapy. Using D1 data, we created a CPAP-response network of patients, and found neck circumference (NC) as the most significant qualitative indicator for apnea-hypopnea index (AHI ...[more]