ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of stop-bang questionnaire to diagnose high risk patients of obstructive sleep apnea taking polysomnography as gold standard.

Methodology: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at Isra University Hospital Hyderabad and help taken from Sleep Disorder Laboratory, The Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi. Patients with age of 18 to 70 years, presenting with symptoms of OSA of either gender were included. History was taken from patients. STOP- BANG Questionnaire was filled out for each patient consenting to participate in the study. All information was noted and entered in the Proforma.

Results: Mean age of patients was 40.1 with standard deviation 17.6, mean AHI score was 20 with standard deviation 6 and stop bang score showed average 6.8 with standard deviation 2.7. Distribution of gender showed that most of the patients were male. Diagnostic accuracy calculated for stop bang questionnaire, sensitivity 77.2%, Specificity 65.5%, Positive Predictive Value 75.4%, Negative Predictive Value 67.8%, Diagnostic Accuracy 72.3% of stop bang questionnaire as follows.

Conclusion: This study confirms the STOP-Bang questionnaire's high performance in screening for Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the surgical population and sleep clinic. The likelihood of OSA severity increases from moderate to severe with the increasing STOP-Bang score.

Keywords: Obstructive sleep apnea, stop-bang questionnaire, apnea-hypopnea index, polysomnogram