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. 2012 Feb 2;142(1):101–110. doi: 10.1378/chest.11-2456

Table 2.

—Unadjusted Associations Among 81 Children Between Sleep Apnea Measures at Baseline and Concurrent Neurobehavioral Morbidity

Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Present vs Absent Behavioral Hyperactivity Index Cognitive Index Mean Sleep Latency on Multiple Sleep Latency Test
Apnea Measure Wilcoxon Z One-sided P Value Spearman ρ P Value Spearman ρ P Value Spearman ρ P Value
Obstructive apnea indexa −1.35b .090b −0.16 .16 −0.066 .56 −0.19b .083b
Apnea/hypopnea indexa 0.0099 .50 −0.022 .85 −0.082 .47 −0.078 .49
Respiratory disturbance indexa 0.0000 .50 −0.007 .95 −0.119 .29 −0.061 .59
Minimum oxygen saturation −0.69 .24 −0.102 .37 0.011 .92 0.16 .15
Sleep time with oxygen saturation < 90%, % 0.66 .25 0.047 .68 −0.094 .40 −0.19b .083b
Esophageal pressure nadir −0.90 .18 −0.030 .79 −0.028 .80 0.19b .092b
Sleep time with esophageal pressure below −10 cm H2O, % 2.36b .010b 0.097 .39 −0.176 .12 −0.19b .087b
a

Index = events per hour of sleep, scored following American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2007 recommendations.

b

Results that show statistical significance or trends.

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