ArticleAmerican journal of obstetrics and gynecology2018
Screening extremely obese pregnant women for obstructive sleep apnea.
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- Diagnostic Accuracy of the Screening Questionnaires for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Pregnancy: A Meta-Analysis and Updated Systematic Review.Journal of sleep research · 2026Pooled it
- Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in high risk pregnancy: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Respiratory research · 2023Trial
- The prevalence and associated factors of third-trimester pregnancy depression in pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity women: a cross-sectional study in Guangdong, China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Referral practices and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancies with obesity.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Screening Tools for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnant Women: An Extended and Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.International journal of preventive medicine · 2024Review
- Clinical application of a previously validated pregnancy-specific screening tool for sleep apnea in a cohort with a high prevalence of obesity.Sleep medicine: X · 2023Article
- A Relation between Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy and Delivering Small for Gestational Age Infant-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Utilization of the GOAL questionnaire as a standardized screening tool for obstructive sleep apnea.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Determinants of non-completion of sleep apnea testing during pregnancy.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
- Common sleep disorders in pregnancy: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women.International anesthesiology clinics · 2022Article
- High prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women with class III obesity: a prospective cohort study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy: 1 sleep study may not be enough in high-risk women.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- The Berlin Questionnaire in pregnancy predominantly identifies obesity.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- Prediction Models of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Model Performance.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy: Early Lessons From Our Sleep Pregnancy Clinic.WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin · 2021Article
- Diagnosis and Management of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome during Labor.Case reports in anesthesiology · 2021Article
- Obesity And Obstetric Anesthesia: Current Insights.Local and regional anesthesia · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundObesity is prevalent among pregnant women in the United States; obstructive sleep apnea is highly comorbid with obesity and is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Screening for obstructive sleep apnea in pregnant women has remained a challenge because of a lack of validated screening tools.
objectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate established obstructive sleep apnea screening tools, a sleepiness scale, and individual component items in a cohort of pregnant women with extreme obesity in mid pregnancy with the use of objective testing to determine obstructive sleep apnea status and to describe the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea among women with extreme obesity. STUDY
designAdult pregnant subjects, between 24 and 35 weeks gestation, with a body mass index ≥40 kg/m
resultsTwenty-four percent of pregnant women with extreme obesity had obstructive sleep apnea on home sleep apnea testing in mid pregnancy (Apnea-Hypopnea Index, ≥5 events per hour]. Established obstructive sleep apnea screening tools performed very poorly to screen for obstructive sleep apnea in this cohort. Age, body mass index, neck circumference, frequently witnessed apneas, and highly likely to fall asleep while driving were associated most strongly with obstructive sleep apnea status in this cohort.
conclusionWe found that 24% of pregnant women with body mass index ≥40 kg/m
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