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Cognitive Function in a Sleep Clinic Cohort of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

2020· article· en· 75 citations· W3095540863 on OpenAlex· 10.1513/annalsats.202004-313oc

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Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.066
Threshold uncertainty score
0.608
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread
0.314 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Abstract Rationale Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with an increased risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) within the general population. However, MCI risk in sleep-clinic populations of patients with OSA is poorly characterized. Objectives To determine the prevalence of MCI in a sleep-clinic population of patients with OSA and which patients are at the greatest risk for this complication. Methods Adults (n = 1,084) referred to three academic sleep centers for suspected OSA who had home sleep apnea testing or in-laboratory polysomnography were recruited. Patients completed sleep and medical history questionnaires, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA) of global cognition, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test of memory, and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition Digit–Symbol Coding (DSC) subtest of information processing speed. Results A MoCA score <26 (range 0–30) was operationally defined as MCI. MCI was present in 47.9% of our entire patient cohort, increasing to >55.3% in patients with moderate and severe OSA. Patients with a MoCA <26 were predominantly older males with more severe OSA, hypoxemia, and vascular comorbidities. Moderate and severe OSA were independently associated with >70% higher odds for MCI compared with patients with no OSA (P = 0.003). Memory and information processing speed was lower than age-matched normal values (P < 0.001), with lower MoCA and DSC scores associated with a higher oxygen desaturation index and nocturnal hypoxemia. Conclusions Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in patients referred to sleep clinics for suspected OSA, occurring predominantly in older males with moderate to severe OSA and concurrent vascular comorbidities. Moderate to severe OSA is an independent risk factor for MCI.

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The record

Venue
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Topic
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Field
Medicine
Canadian institutions
University of British ColumbiaFoothills Medical CentreUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity of Calgary
Funders
not available
Keywords
MedicineObstructive sleep apneaMontreal Cognitive AssessmentPolysomnographySleep apneaCohortPopulationPhysical therapyPediatricsHypoxemiaOdds ratioSleep studyInternal medicineWechsler Adult Intelligence ScaleApneaCognitionPsychiatryCognitive impairment
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yes