Acoustic analysis of snoring in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: A call for more rigorous studies

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 765-771

  Jin, Hui ^a   Lee, Li Ang ^b   Song, Lijuan ^a   Li, Yanmei ^a   Peng, Jianxin ^c   Zhong, Nanshan ^a   Li, Hsueh Yu ^b   Zhang, Xiaowen ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Meta analysis; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Review; Snoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX RATIO; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING;

EID: 84937691123     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.4856     Document Type: Article

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