Table 4.

Medians (range) of the individual event parameters for OSA patients with cerebrovascular disease (stroke or TIA) and reference OSA patients without cerebrovascular disease

		Cerebrovascular disease patients	Reference patients	p value*
Apnea	Duration (s)	19.4 (10.0–123.0)	24.3 (10.0–86.1)	< 0.001
	DesDur (s)	25.5 (4.0–119.5)	29.6 (5.7–97.3)	< 0.001
	DesArea (s%)	87.5 (2.0–2786.0)	117.0 (8.3–1390.3)	< 0.001
	ObsSev (s2%)	1707 (20–334,553)	2886 (88–116,204)	< 0.001
Hypopnea	Duration (s)	25.1 (10.0–193.4)	28.6 (10.0–254.8)	< 0.001
	DesDur (s)	27.0 (4.5–118.0)	28.3 (4.3–260.3)	< 0.001
	DesArea (s%)	63.0 (7.0–1426.0)	74.0 (3.0–1609.5)	< 0.001
	ObsSev (s2%)	1578 (82–152,411)	2092 (48–372,108)	< 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