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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects millions, with over 80% of moderate to severe cases remaining undiagnosed.
  • Timely diagnosis is crucial for effective management and preventing associated health complications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a predictive model for identifying patients at high risk of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
  • To leverage heart rate variability (HRV), clinical, and demographic data for OSA risk prediction.

Main Methods:

  • A random forest (RF) model was developed using sleep monitoring data from 798 patients.
  • Data was split into training (n=558) and testing (n=240) sets with a 7:3 ratio.
  • Model performance was evaluated using 10-fold cross-validation and compared against a Logistic regression model.

Main Results:

  • The RF model achieved high performance metrics: 94.68% sensitivity, 73.08% specificity, 90.00% accuracy, and an AUC of 0.83.
  • These results significantly outperformed the Logistic regression model (73.94% sensitivity, 86.54% specificity, 76.67% accuracy, AUC 0.80).

Conclusions:

  • The developed RF prediction model effectively distinguishes patients with moderate to severe OSA.
  • This model holds potential for large-scale population screening and continuous monitoring of OSA treatment efficacy.