HONOLULU — A new questionnaire, developed to predict obstructive sleep apnea in high-risk pregnancy, outperformed other diagnostic tools, according to a study presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.
“Underdiagnosed OSA can lead to a lot of complications, especially specifically in pregnancy, like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and preterm delivery,” Kristin N. Sheehan, MD, pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, told Healio. “We chose a high-risk obstetric population which is really underrepresented in the literature,