Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy. Is it a new syndrome in obstetrics?

El-Helbawy, Rana; El-Mahalawy, Ibrahim I.; Shaheen, Abdelhamid; Ibrahim, Reda A

doi:10.1016/j.ejcdt.2017.10.001

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“…pregnant women demonstrated significantly higher BMI (31.79 ±4.4 vs 26.54 ±2.7) as compared to non-pregnant control. These results corroborate the ideas of El-Helbawy et al [8] who suggested that on 30 pregnant cases and 30 age-matched controls, with mean maternal ages of 30.4 ± 8.07 & 31.47 ± 6.96, respectively. Prospective research was conducted, the mean gestational age, however, was lower than our research (23.03 ± 8.88).…”

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“…Furthermore, the present work reported that that it estimated mean of snoring index of 22.29 ± 7.07 in pregnant high-risk group and 13.20 ± 4.71in nonpregnant high-risk group. El-Helbawy et al [8] reported that snoring index range was (0-32.9 vs 0-9) in cases and control group respectively. An explanation for these results may be that the polysomnography was formed to high-risk patients according to STOP questionnaire in both groups, but in other study formed to patients not related to questionnaire results.…”

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“…BMI, age, neck circumference, and gender are added to the STOP questionnaire as part of an alternate scoring model known as the STOP-Bang questionnaire. However, there are not many reports on these problems affecting pregnant upper Egyptian women [7,8] .…”

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“…Sample size was calculated based on the prevalence and study subjects from the previous study using free cal software. 3…”

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Study on assessment of Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) risk in Obese pregnant women

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Yuvarajan²,

Radhakrishnan³

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IJIRM

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Obstructive sleep apnea is a major public health concern which is associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular comorbidities. Eventhough association of OSA with adverse fetomaternal outcomes is documented, screening for OSA in pregnancy is a challenging task. So the purpose of our study is to assess the risk of OSA in obese pregnant ladies by using established STOP BANG Questionnare for OSA. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study on assessment of obstructive sleep apnea risk among the obese pregnant women was done in tertiary care centre in the rural population of Puducherry. Results: 21 obese pregnant women were included in our study. The mean age of our study population was 29.5 years. Most of the study subjects (85.7%) had history of snoring both reported by them and their bed partners. History of tiredness was reported by 14 patients (66.6%).Chocking or history of gasping was reported by only 4 patients (19%). Results of our study showed that 42.9% of the obese pregnant women had high risk, 42.9% had intermediate risk and 14.3% for OSA as per the STOP BANG scoring. Conclusion: Thus our study subjects were having higher risk of OSA which needed further evaluation with polysomnography. Thus the STOPBANG questionnaire can be used to screen for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in obese women during pregnancy.

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