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6. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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2008
Hidden Markov Models and Dynamical Systems
Executive Summary Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) includes symptoms of excessive daytime somnolence, snoring, and witnessed apneic events. The average number of hypopneic and apneic events per hour of sleep are used to grade the severity of OSA using the apnea-hypopnea index. The gold standard for diagnosing OSA is through full-night polysomnography in a laboratory with a titration to determine the optimal pressure setting. Split-night diagnostic titration studies using auto-titration
doi:10.1137/1.9780898717747.ch6
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