Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in a Population of Canadian Grainworkers

Sean P Keenan; Kathleen A Ferguson; Moira Chan-Yeung; John A Fleetham

doi:10.1155/1998/403649

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 1998)

Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in a Population of Canadian Grainworkers

Sean P Keenan,
Kathleen A Ferguson,
Moira Chan-Yeung,
John A Fleetham

Affiliations

Sean P Keenan: Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Kathleen A Ferguson: Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Moira Chan-Yeung: Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
John A Fleetham: Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1998/403649
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 184 – 190

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in a Canadian population of industrial workers (grainworkers). To determine the clinical features that are predictive of SDB and the validity of self-reported snoring.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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