Trial reportSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2018
Combination mode of physiological signals for diagnosis of OSAS using portable monitor.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Usefulness of Blood Biomarkers in Screening Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Could Albumin Indices and Uric Acid-to-HDL Ratio Be New OSAS Severity Indices?Advances in respiratory medicine · 2025Article
- Clinical significance of the hemoglobin-to-red blood cell distribution width ratio in patients with severe OSAS.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Recent Progress in Long-Term Sleep Monitoring Technology.Biosensors · 2023Review
- A Flexible Thermocouple Film Sensor for Respiratory Monitoring.Micromachines · 2022Article
- A Minimum Set of Physiological Parameters to Diagnose Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Using Non-Invasive Portable Monitors. A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
purposePortable respiratory monitor (PRM) has been proposed for pre-diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). However, discrepant physiological signal combinations were rarely studied for diagnostic assessment of OSAS. This study was designed to evaluate combination modes of key physiological signals collected by portable sensor modules for OSAS screening in comparison with polysomnography (PSG).
methodsPeople with suspected OSAS were submitted to PRM at a sleep laboratory monitoring concurrently with PSG. The diagnostic accuracy was assessed by sensitivity, specificity, Pearson correlation coefficients, kappa statistic, and Bland-Altman plot. Four combination modes of PRM, including mode 1 with single nasal airflow, mode 2 with airflow plus body activity, mode 3 with airflow plus SpO2, tri-combination mode 4 with airflow plus SpO2 plus activity were studied.
resultsThirty-five subjects (69% men, mean age ± SD, 49 ± 12 years) with averaged apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of 36 ± 29 events/h were tested. Excluding incomplete recordings, 33 valid samples were analyzed. All PRM modes demonstrated good concordances with PSG in diagnostic outcomes. Tri-combination mode had optimum with sensitivity of 96.5%, specificity of 100%, +LR of 4, -LR of 0.03, and kappa coefficient of 0.85 for screening OSAS holding AHI ≥5. Its Bland-Altman plots also showed the smallest dispersion.
conclusionsThis study used clinical comparison to demonstrate diagnostic accuracy of PRM with different physiological signal combination. The combination of respiratory airflow, oxygen saturation, and body activity provided sufficiently high accuracy for diagnosing OSAS. Single respiratory airflow sensor as the simplest PRM was also feasible for pre-screening OSAS.
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