ArticleAnnals of thoracic medicine
The effect of adding gender item to Berlin Questionnaire in determining obstructive sleep apnea in sleep clinics.
Article in Annals of thoracic medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Diagnostic utility of obstructive sleep apnea screening questionnaires: a comprehensive meta-analysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2024Pooled it
- Diagnostic accuracy of screening questionnaires for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults in different clinical cohorts: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Pooled it
- Restless legs syndrome in pregnancy: Frequency, sleep quality, and questionnaire-defined risk of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Women.Pulmonary therapy · 2026Review
- Sleep Disorders in Patients with Epilepsy.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2025Article
- The prevalence of poor sleep quality and its association with the risk of obstructive sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome in diabetic patients treated with cyanoacrylate glue for varicose veins.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2023Article
- Gender Issues in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Review
- Validation of the NoSAS score for screening sleep-disordered breathing: A sleep clinic- based study in TurkeyTurkish journal of medical sciences · 2021Article
- Which Screening Questionnaire is Best for Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Sleep Clinic Population Considering Age, Gender, and Comorbidities?Turkish thoracic journal · 2020Article
- Gender Differences in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Value of Sleep Questionnaires with a Separate Analysis of Cardiovascular Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Screening Questionnaires for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Updated Systematic Review.Oman medical journal · 2018Review
- Obstructive sleep apnea is the triggering factor for massive hemoptysis : Obstructive sleep apnea and hemoptysis.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2017Article
- Evaluation of the Relationship between Occupational Accidents and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Risk among Employees of a University Hospital.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimWe aimed to validate the Turkish version of Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) and developped a BQ-gender (BQ-G) form by adding gender component. We aimed to compare the two forms in defining patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in sleep clinics.
methodsFour hundred and eighty five consecutive patients, refered to our sleep clinic for snoring, witnessed apnea and/or excessive daytime sleepiness were enrolled to the study. All patients underwent in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG). Patients with sleep efficiency less than 40% and total sleep time less than 4 hours, chronic anxiolitic/sedative drug usage, respiratory tract infection within past two weeks were excluded from the study. All the patients fulfilled BQ. The test and retest for BQ were applied in 15-day interval in 30 patients.
resultsTotally 433 patients were enrolled to the study (285 male, 148 female). The mean age of the patients was 47,5 ± 10.5 (21-79). 180 patients (41.6%) had apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ≤ 15, while 253 patients (58,4%) had AHI > 15. The κ value was 48-94 and the the truth value was 69-94% for the test-retest procedure. Sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), positive predictive value (PPV), and area under the curve AUC were 84.2%, 31.7%, 48.7%, 63.4%, and 0.579 in order for BQ and 79.9 %, 51.7%, 63.2% , 69.6%, and 0.652 for BQ-G.
conclusionThe results showed that BQ-G is relatively better than BQ in determining moderate to severe OSA in sleep clinics where most of the patients are sleep apneic but both of the tests were found to have insufficient validities in defining moderate to severe OSA in sleep clinics.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.