Sleep apnea related risk of motor vehicle accidents is reduced by continuous positive airway pressure: Swedish traffic accident registry data

Sleep

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 341-349

  Karimi, Mahssa ^a   Hedner, Jan ^a   Häbel, Henrike ^b   Nerman, Olle ^b   Grote, Ludger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CPAP; Daytime sleepiness; Driving distance; Risk factors; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT RISK; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE VENTILATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENESCENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; ODDS RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP STAGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP STAGES; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923831450     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.4486     Document Type: Article

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