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Sleep findings and predictors of sleep desaturation in adult cystic fibrosis patients.
Sleep Breath
December 2012
Division of Pulmonology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) and Postgraduate Program in Pulmonology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Purpose: Questions remain about the polysomnographic findings and the predictors for sleep desaturation in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Our study aimed to evaluate sleep parameters in a sample of adult CF patients comparing them with healthy controls and to determine the best predictors of sleep desaturation in CF patients with awake resting peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) ≥90%.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study, with data collected prospectively, 51 clinically stable adult CF patients (mean age 25.