Examples of AHI in a sentence
Where a Province or Territory does not conclude bilateral arrangements under this Framework, federal funding will flow through the extension of existing arrangements (AHI and renovation programs).
In the circumstances described, the DI provided by the Xxxxxxx Sleep Recorder is a reliable indicator of AHI in Mexico City, a finding which coincides with those for other altitudes.5 Further studies involving a greater number of patients, however, are necessary to determine whether the high degree of agreement we observed is maintained in patients grouped by disease severity.
We did not find this to be the case, however, when we compared oxygen desaturation values obtained by automatic measurement with AHI values obtained by polysomnography.
In conclusion, we observed a strong correlation between the AHI obtained by polysomnography and the AHI and DI measured by a Xxxxxxx sleep recorder in adults with suspected OSAS.
Despite these minimal differences in scoring criteria, when we compared the AHI obtained by polysomnography and the DI obtained by oximetry, our results were very similar to those of Xxxxxxx et al.5 Although the present study was designed to evaluate agreement and not diagnostic yield, we calculated the AUCs by using the polysomnography AHI values as reference values and comparing these to a range of DI cutoff values.