Should everyone be monitored for upper-airway resistance and how?
Preliminary data indicate that the use of a morphometric model, an expert system with standardized questions, and an evaluation of snoring can be effective tools for diagnosing upper-airway sleep-disordered breathing (UASDB) in many cases. This eliminates the need for many sleep recordings.
Guilleminault
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Stanford University Sleep Disorders Clinic, California 94305, USA.
Kushida
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Stoohs
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Ohayon
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Wilson
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Clerk
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D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000150:complications*; D000403:Airway Resistance; D015992:Body Mass Index; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D017286:Polysomnography; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012913:Snoring / Q000209:etiology