Abstract
s of 3rd International Congress of the Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) / Sleep Medicine 10, Suppl. 2 (2009) S1–S83 S79 neic and non-apneic and obese and non-obese groups and to determine the sensitivity and specificity of questions such as “Do you snore?”. Methods: Three hundred and nine patients were referred to the sleep laboratory; each patient filled out our standard sleep questionnaires reporting age, gender, weight, height, body mass index (BMI), sleep habits, mood, snoring self-perception and listener’s perception of snoring, snore frequency, snore intensity, family’s snore history and Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). The patients subsequently underwent polysomnographic study during which their snoring was scored by the technicians and scored for frequency, intensity, and noise using a technician snore scale (TSS). Results: The TSS results correlated with AHI (r=0.47, P 10, BMI>30. The observed correlation of TSS with ADI and BMI suggests that snoring and OSA may perhaps share a similar obstructive mechanism.
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