Cutoff points in STOP-Bang questionnaire for obstructive sleep apnea.

Jose Apolinário Silva Neves Junior Ana Paula Andrade Fernandes Maria Ângela TardelliAmérico Massafuni YamashitaSônia Maria Pereira Guimarães Togeiro Moura Sergio Tufik Helga Cristina Almeida da Silva

Published in: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (2020)

STOP-Bang Brazilian version identified OSAS patients with lower sensitivity and higher specificity compared to previous studies. Different cutoff points would improve the performance to detect patients with more severe OSAS.

Keyphrases

obstructive sleep apnea
psychometric properties
positive airway pressure
early onset
cross sectional
case control
sleep apnea
patient reported
structural basis
drug induced