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. 2020 Jan 14;24(4):1495–1505. doi: 10.1007/s11325-019-02010-2

Table 2.

Medians (range) of the individual event parameters for stroke and TIA patients, and their matched reference patients

Stroke Stroke reference p value* TIA TIA reference p value*
Apnea Duration (s) 19.6 (10.0–123.0) 24.4 (10.0–86.1) < 0.001 18.1 (10.0–86.0) 23.7 (10.0–85.6) < 0.001
DesDur (s) 28.5 (4.0–119.5) 30.0 (5.7–97.3) < 0.001 28.0 (6.5–95.5) 33.7 (7.0–88.0) < 0.001
DesArea (s%) 93.0 (5.5–2786.0) 112.0 (8.3–1344.7) < 0.001 69.5 (2.0–1009.0) 134.2 (14.0–1390.3) < 0.001
ObsSev (s2%) 1788 (90–334,553) 2745 (88–115,709) < 0.001 1385 (20–65,777) 3238 (148–116,204) < 0.001
Hypopnea Duration (s) 25.1 (10.0–193.4) 27.6 (10.0–254.8) < 0.001 25.6 (10.0–176.1) 30.4 (10.0–157.9) < 0.001
DesDur (s) 27.0 (4.5–188.0) 27.7 (3.0–260.3) < 0.001 28.0 (5.0–178.0) 29.7 (4.7–160.3) < 0.001
DesArea (s%) 64.5 (7.5–1426.0) 72.3 (3.0–1609.5) < 0.001 60.0 (7.0–886.5) 77.0 (6.7–1338.3) < 0.001
ObsSev (s2%) 1619 (82–152,411) 1985 (49–372,108) < 0.001 1508 (121–112,878) 1953 (83–115,860) < 0.001

DesDur desaturation duration, DesArea desaturation area, ObsSev individual event severity (Eqs. 2 and 3)

*Statistical significance was evaluated with Mann-Whitney U test