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. 2019 Oct;11(10):4179–4187. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.09.75

Table 3. With cut-off point of AHI of 15 as the diagnose of OSAHS disease.

Questionnaire AUC (95% CI) Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) PPV (95% CI) NPV (95% CI)
NoSAS 0.746 (0.681–0.811) 0.888 (0.831–0.945) 0.476 (0.381–0.571) 0.652 (0.558–0.726) 0.794 (0.694–0.894)
No-apnea 0.633 (0.560–0.706) 0.930 (0.872–0.989) 0.238 (0.157–0.320) 0.354 (0.286–0.423) 0.844 (0.718–0.970)
ESS 0.685 (0.614–0.755) 0.629 (0.541–0.717) 0.648 (0.556–0.738) 0.664 (0.575–0.752) 0.613 (0.522–0.703)
Berlin 0.709 (0.654–0.776) 0.810 (0.739–0.882) 0.429 (0.334–0.523) 0.610 (0.533–0687) 0.672 (0.559–0.784)
STOP 0.707 (0.639–0.775) 0.871 (0.739–0.882) 0.390 (0.297–0.484) 0.612 (0.538–0.686) 0.732 (0.616–0.848)
STOP-Bang 0.726 (0.659–0.793) 0.914 (0.862–0.965) 0.200 (0.123–0.277) 0.558 (0.487–0.629) 0.677 (0.513–0.842)

AHI, apnea hypopnea index; OSAHS, obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome; AUC, the area under the ROC curve; CI, confident interval; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; STOP, STOP questionnaire.