Clinical Study
Relationships between Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment, and Inflammatory Cytokines
Table 2
Results from correlations between physiological/sleep parameters and both IL-6 and TNF-α levels in OSAS patients.
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AWC: waist circumference; NC: neck circumference; BMI: body mass index; AHI: apnea-hypopnea index; Minimum SaO2: the lowest oxygen saturation recorded during sleep; mean SaO2: the average oxygen saturation recorded during sleep; SaO2 ≥ 90 (% TST): the amount of total sleep time spent at ≥90% saturation; ESS: Epworth sleepiness scale. |