Nocturia and snoring: predictive symptoms for obstructive sleep apnea

Abstract

Nocturia appears comparable to snoring as a screening tool for OSA in patients presenting to a sleep medical center. Research in urology and primary care clinics is needed to definitively clarify the use of nocturia as a screening instrument for obstructive sleep apnea.

A clinical risk matrix for obstructive sleep apnea using Bayesian network approaches

“…We obtained a proportion of normal results in 66 patients (34%), revealing a large number of unnecessary exams that are performed every day in Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho hospital center, with the possibility of this result being generalized to the different hospital centers in the country. Male gender was more prevalent (63%), agreeing with the literature [1,10,16,[20][21][22]27,30,36,[42][43][44][45]. Possible explanations are the higher prevalence of craniofacial and upperairway abnormalities (21%), and also snoring (90%).…”

“…Reported risk factors for developing OSA include different groups of variables, such as demographic, clinical history, comorbidities and even factors collected during the consultation, for example, male gender [1,10,16,20-22, 27,30,36,42-45], aging [1,16,[20][21][22]27,30,36,[42][43][44][45], obesity [1,10,12,16,[20][21][22]30,36,42,43,45], history of smoking [1,10,12,22,30,45], increased neck [1,10,16,[20][21][22]27,30,36,43,45] and abdominal [30,45] circumferences, arterial [1,12,16,20,22,…”

Adherence and Subthreshold Adherence in Sleep Apnea Subjects Receiving Positive Airway Pressure Therapy: A Retrospective Study Evaluating Differences in Adherence Versus Use

“…ness outcomes in compliant and subthreshold compliant subjects, and we evaluated changes in 2 outcomes, insomnia and nocturia, not previously researched in subthreshold compliant sleep apnea cases. [37][38][39][40][41][42][43] A consecutive series of subjects ( Fig. 1) who presented to our community-based sleep medical center (Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences, Ltd.) were divided into compliant regular users, subthreshold regular users, and minimal users.…”

Does My Bed Partner Have OSA? There's an App for That!

“…Unfortunately, by itself, snoring is not specifi c for OSA, and further testing is usually required. 2 However, in this issue of JCSM Nakano and colleagues report a breakthrough to simplify this problem: they have used snoring sounds alone to measure OSA severity, and have done so using no more specialized equipment than a "smartphone." 3 In their study, respiratory sounds were monitored using a smartphone placed on the chest while patients were simultaneously assessed for snoring and sleep apnea severity in a controlled laboratory setting.…”