PREVALENCE OF SLEEP APNEA IN A PRIMARY CARE CLINIC POPULATION

这项研究将调查初中生睡眠呼吸暂停的患病率 关注临床人群并评估不同方案的成本效益 筛查和诊断睡眠呼吸暂停的策略。这项研究将 还测量了有和没有睡眠呼吸暂停的患者的健康结果， 前后进行诊断性测试以确定生活质量 在这项研究中，患者处于基线状态，并在被告知睡觉后 呼吸暂停。我们将筛查初级保健诊所患者的睡眠呼吸暂停 有详细的健康史问卷和脉搏血氧饱和度 使用标准评估这些筛查工具的预测准确性 以多导睡眠图为参考标准。我们将执行功能 对研究对象的评估和详细的健康结果 用于确定生活质量和知觉的评估问卷 健康问题。 我们假设中国轻度至中度睡眠呼吸暂停的患病率 在护理诊所环境中看到的患者将高于 以社区为基础、健康、有工作的成年人。我们假设病人 未确诊的睡眠呼吸暂停更有可能发生在 与那些没有睡眠呼吸暂停的人相比。我们还假设 睡眠呼吸暂停患者更有可能在睡眠质量方面得分较低 与没有睡眠呼吸暂停的人相比，基线时的生命测量结果也更多 很可能在重复测试中得分低于基线 被告知诊断结果。

This study will investigate the prevalence of sleep apnea in a primary care clinic population and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of different strategies for screening and diagnosing sleep apnea. The study will also measure health outcomes in patients with and without sleep apnea, before and after the diagnostic testing to determine the quality of life in the study patients at baseline and after being told of having sleep apnea. We will screen for sleep apnea in primary care clinic patients with a detailed health history questionnaire and pulse oximetry and evaluate the predictive accuracy of these screening tools using standard polysomnography as the reference standard. We will perform functional assessment of the study subjects with a detailed health outcomes assessment questionnaire to determine the quality of life and perceived health problems. We hypothesize that the prevalence of mild to moderate sleep apnea in patients seen in the care clinic setting will be higher than that of a community-based, healthy, employed adults. We hypothesize that patients with undiagnosed sleep apnea are more likely to be more frequent of the clinic compared to those without sleep apnea. We also hypothesize that patients with sleep apnea are more likely to score lower in quality of life measurements at baseline than without sleep apnea and also more likely to score lower than at baseline on repeat testing after they are being told of the diagnosis.