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  • Animal-assisted diagnostics
  • Respiratory medicine

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  • Dogs possess a keen sense of smell, enabling olfaction-based detection.
  • Previous studies showed dogs can distinguish obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patient urine from healthy controls.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To prospectively evaluate the efficacy of trained dogs as a screening tool for OSA.
  • To assess dogs' ability to identify sleep apnea in patients with suspected OSA.

Main Methods:

  • Collected urine samples from 50 patients with suspected OSA.
  • Classified samples as positive for OSA if the respiratory event index was ≥5/h.
  • Assessed the accuracy of two trained dogs in a prospective, blinded setting.

Main Results:

  • Both dogs correctly identified approximately 50% of both positive and negative OSA samples.
  • No significant difference was observed in dogs' ability to detect severe versus milder OSA cases.

Conclusions:

  • Dogs are currently unsuitable for clinical screening of obstructive sleep apnea.
  • The heterogeneous nature of OSA may contribute to the dogs' limited diagnostic accuracy.