Epworth sleepiness scale and its value in clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome;Valor de la escala de somnolencia de Epworth en el diagnostico del sindrome de apneas obstructivas del sueño

Medicina

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 902-906

  Uribe Echevarria, Elisa M ^a   Alvarez, Daniel ^b   Giobellina, Roberto ^b   Uribe Echevarria, Agustin M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Neurologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anthropometric index; Epworth sleepiness scale; Hypersomnia; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP STAGE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP STAGES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034577616     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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