Pulse Transit Time in Screening Sleep Disordered Breathing In An Elderly Population: The PROOF-SYNAPSE Study | Zendy

Florian Chouchou | Zendy; Émilia Sforza | Zendy; Sébastien Celle | Zendy; Vincent Pichot | Zendy; Delphine Maudoux | Zendy; Arnauld Garcin | Zendy; Jean Barthélemy | Zendy; Frédéric Roche | Zendy

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Pulse Transit Time in Screening Sleep Disordered Breathing In An Elderly Population: The PROOF-SYNAPSE Study

Author(s) -

Florian Chouchou,

Émilia Sforza,

Sébastien Celle,

Vincent Pichot,

Delphine Maudoux,

Arnauld Garcin,

Jean Barthélemy,

Frédéric Roche

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1160

Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , confidence interval , area under the curve , cutoff , population , cardiology , polysomnography , ambulatory , sleep disordered breathing , apnea , obstructive sleep apnea , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics

Pulse transit time (PPT) has been introduced as a useful screening tool to diagnose sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Since the prevalence of SDB increases with age, the question is whether PTT could be used to diagnose SDB in the elderly. We assess the effectiveness of PTT for SDB screening in a large healthy elderly population.

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