Immediate Physiological Responses to Inspiratory Flow Limited Events in Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Jay T GuevarraBresne CastilloHimanshu N JoshiAnkit ParekhIndu AyappaDavid M RapoportPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2021)
Most IFL events resulted in immediate physiological responses and no single consequence reliably occurred after every event. We propose a framework that can incorporate scoring of IFL events into assessing the diagnosis and severity of OSA and suggest that no single consequence be used to define IFL as a respiratory event. The relationship of IFL events to OSA outcomes remains to be tested.