Exploring the Impact of Positional Sleep Apnea in a Turkish Population: Unveiling the Untold Story

25 August 2023: Clinical Research

Makbule Ozlem Akbay ^ABCDEF* , Canan Gunduz Gurkan ^ABCDEF , Ayse Ezgi Ak ^BCDEF , Sema Sarac ^ABCDEF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.941425

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e941425

Table 5 Multivariate logistic regression analysis for factors independently associated with POSA and e-POSA.

	B	Exp(B)	95% CI for Exp(B)		p value
	B	Exp(B)	LB	UB	p value

Variables
Gender (male)	0.786	2.195	1.484	3.248
Age	−0.025	0.976	0.960	0.991
BMI	−0.070	0.932	0.904	0.961
AHI-total	−0.047	0.954	0.946	0.962
TST-supine	0.001	1.001	0.998	1.003	0.591
SIT90%	−0.029	0.972	0.965	0.979

Variables
Gender (male)	0.704	2.021	1.253	3.261
Age	−0.013	0.987	0.969	1.005	0.168
BMI	−0.053	0.948	0.913	0.984
AHI-total	−0.104	0.902	0.884	0.919
TST-supine	0.005	1.005	1.002	1.008
SIT90%	−0.033	0.968	0.955	0.980
OSA – obstructive sleep apnea; POSA – positional OSA; e-POSA – exclusive POSA; TST – total sleep time; AHI – apnea-hypopnea index; SIT90% – the percentage of time spent at oxygen saturation below 90% in TST; CI – confidence interval; LB – lower bound; UB – upper bound.