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Screening for risk of obstructive sleep apnoea - results of an island wide survey in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Undugodage, C.
dc.contributor.author Amarasiri, L.
dc.contributor.author Kamalanathan, M.
dc.contributor.author Gunasinghe, W.
dc.contributor.author Sadikeen, A.
dc.contributor.author Fernando, A.
dc.contributor.author Wickremasinghe, R.
dc.contributor.author Gunasekera, K.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-12T09:15:30Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-12T09:15:30Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Journal of the Ceylon College of Physicians. 2019; 49(Supplement 1): 13. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2448-9514
dc.identifier.issn 0379-802X
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/21956
dc.description Oral Presentation Abstract (OP13), 52nd Anniversary academic sessions of the College of Physicians. 2019, 12th – 14th September. Galadari Hotel Colombo, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.description.abstract INTRODUCTION: Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is the commonest sleep related breathing disorder worldwide, but there is only limited community level data on the risk of OSA from South Asian countries. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the community prevalence of persons at high-risk for OSA among Sri Lankan adults. METHODS: A randomly selected sample of adults from 7 (out of 9) provinces of Sri Lanka was screened using the Berlin Questionnaire (BQ). BQ has 3 categories related to snoring severity (category 1), excessive day time somnolence (category 2) and history of hypertension or obesity (category 3). Individuals were classified as high or low risk according to the category score. RESULTS: One thousand six hundred and eight adults (46.2% male) were screened, and 270 were classified as high risk for OSA {16.8%; 95% Cl 14.9 %-18.6% (15.1% in males; 18.3% in females, p >0.05)}. Of the high-risk individuals, 239 (88.5%) were category 1 positive, 142 (52.6%) category 2 positive and 202 (74.8%) category 3 positive. 49/577 (8.5%) among persons = or <40 years and 221/ 1031 (21.4%) among those >40 years were at high risk. 10.3% of the adults had a BMI ≥30 (5.7% of males, 14% of females p<0.001). Snoring was reported by 573 (35.6%) individuals; 120 of them (20.9%) had apneas during sleep. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of high risk for OSA in this Sri Lankan community survey is lower than that reported from Western countries and did not show a gender-related difference. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Journal of the Ceylon College of Physicians en_US
dc.subject Obstructive sleep en_US
dc.title Screening for risk of obstructive sleep apnoea - results of an island wide survey in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Conference abstract en_US


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