Study evaluates home snoring analysis to screen patients for sleep apnea

There is a strong positive correlation between periodic snoring and apnea-hypopnea index, suggests a study in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. According to the authors, measuring periodic snoring at home may be simple and useful as a preliminary screening method for predicting the probability of obstructive sleep apnea.

Read the article in JCSM – Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Periodic Snoring Sound Recorded at Home