The Effect of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Absolute Risk of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the incidence of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) stratified by age, sex, and diagnosis with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and to determine whether some patients with newly diagnosed CSC may be candidates for OSA evaluation.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Methods

We used the IBM MarketScan database to select 59,016,145 commercially insured patients in the United States between 2007 and 2016. We identified patients' first diagnosis with CSC, and defined patients as having OSA if they had a diagnosis following a sleep study. We specified Cox proportional hazard models with interactions between age, sex, and OSA status to determine patients' risk of developing CSC. We estimated the positive predictive value (PPV) that a new diagnosis of CS

SUBMITTER: Pan CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature