Network science meets respiratory medicine for OSAS phenotyping and severity prediction.

ABSTRACT: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common clinical condition. The way that OSAS risk factors associate and converge is not a random process. As such, defining OSAS phenotypes fosters personalized patient management and population screening. In this paper, we present a network-based observational, retrospective study on a cohort of 1,371 consecutive OSAS patients and 611 non-OSAS control patients in order to explore the risk factor associations and their correlation with OSAS comorbidities. To this end, we construct the Apnea Patients Network (APN) using patient compatibility relationships according to six objective parameters: age, gender, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), neck circumference (NC) and the Epworth sleepiness score (ESS). By running targeted network cluste

SUBMITTER: Mihaicuta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426352 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature