Association of nocturnal hypoxemia and white blood cell count in a multicenter cohort
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Abstract
Abstract Study Objectives There is a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and innate immunity is a potential pathophysiologic pathway. The objective of this study was to determine whether nocturnal hypoxemia is associated with circulating markers of innate immunity in OSA. Methods This was a cross-sectional study of an observational cohort from the multicentre, clinic-based, Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network. Oxygen desaturation index 4% (ODI4%) was used to diagnose and determine the severity of OSA. The percentage of time spent below SpO2 <90% (T90) and minimum SpO2 we considered as other measures of nocturnal hypoxemia. Multiple linear regressions were used to assess associations between total white blood cell (WBC) and subsets and ODI and hypoxemia indices. Results A total of 1296 patients were included in the analysis. There was a positive association between ODI4% and lymphocyte count, adjusting for confounders. For every 1-SD increase in ODI4%, lymphocyte counts increased by 0.08 × 109 L (95% CI 0.01 to 0.15) SD. Patients with severe OSA (ODI4% ≥ 30 events/hour) had significantly higher total WBC and lymphocyte count than non-OSA cohort, in the adjusted model, p-value <.02, for both. There was a positive association between T90 and total WBC, neutrophil, lymphocyte, and monocyte count, adjusting for confounders. Minimum SpO2 was independently associated with total WBC, neutrophil, and monocyte counts. Conclusions In this pan-Canadian clinic-based cohort of individuals with suspected OSA, nocturnal hypoxemia indices were associated with an increase in total WBC and subset counts.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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