Hypoxic burden and sleep hypoventilation in obese patients
L Beauvais1, A Gillibert2, A Cuvelier3
1CHU Rouen, Department of Pulmonary, Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Intensive Care, FR-76000 Rouen, France.
Introduction:
Novel biomarkers of hypoxic load have emerged, as sleep apnea-specific hypoxic burden which provides more precise assessment of intermittent hypoxemia severity. Our main objective was to assess the potential benefit of hypoxic burden to identify obesity-related sleep hypoventilation. We hypothesized that hypoxic burden may help diagnose obesity-related sleep hypoventilation better than usual sleep respiratory measures (i.e., apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), mean SpO2, time with SpO2 < 90 %).
Methods:
This retrospective study was conducted from June 2022 to October 2023 at the University Hospital of Rouen, France. All consecutive obese patients (BMI ≥30 kg/m2), adults, with no other respiratory or neurological diseases who underwent a polysomnography or polygraphy with concomitant capnography were included. Sleep hypoventilation was defined according to American Academy of Sleep Medicine criteria based on transcutaneous CO2 monitoring (PtcCO2). Diagnostic performance of sleep-related respiratory measures i.e., sleep apnea-specific hypoxic burden, apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), mean SpO2, time with SpO2 < 90 % was evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves. Correlations between sleep-related respiratory measures were assessed by a Spearman correlation matrix.
Results:
Among 107 obese patients with analyzed capnography, 37 (35 %) had sleep hypoventilation. Patients were 53 ± 14 years old, mean BMI = 38 ± 6 kg/m2, mean AHI = 26.5 ± 25/h, mean hypoxic burden = 67 ± 109 %min/h, mean SpO2 = 91.5 ± 3 %, mean time with SpO2<90 % = 19.4 ± 28 %, mean PtcCO2 = 6.2 ± 0.7 kPa. A low positive correlation was found between hypoxic burden and mean PtcCO2 (r = 0.4, p < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression model explaining sleep hypoventilation was insufficient with area under ROC curve of hypoxic burden estimated at 0.74 (95 % CI 0.65 to 0.84).
Conclusion:
Hypoxic burden has low correlation with transcutaneous CO2 pressure and a low ability to diagnose obesity-related sleep hypoventilation.
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