Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208057, New Haven, CT 06520-8057, USA.
Clin Chest Med. 2010 Jun;31(2):179-86. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2010.02.011.
The objectives of this article are to (1) understand how respiratory event definitions and syndrome threshold values affect prevalence estimates of obstructive sleep apnea in adults, (2) recognize important risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea in adults, and (3) understand current theories of the underlying mechanisms for airway obstruction during sleep.
(1)了解呼吸事件定义和综合征阈值如何影响成年人阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的患病率估计;(2)认识成年人阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的重要危险因素;(3)了解睡眠期间气道阻塞的潜在机制的当前理论。