PMID- 26170420
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160810
LR  - 20151027
IS  - 1479-9731 (Electronic)
IS  - 1479-9723 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 4
DP  - 2015 Nov
TI  - Motor vehicle accidents and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: A methodology to 
      calculate the related burden of injuries.
PG  - 320-8
LID - 10.1177/1479972315594624 [doi]
AB  - The association between motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and obstructive sleep 
      apnea syndrome (OSAS) has always been quantified as risk of MVAs for individual 
      drivers with OSAS. We evaluated the expected injured patients per year 
      attributable to OSAS-dependent MVAs in a general population. By combining OSAS 
      prevalence and OSAS-dependent MVAs odds ratio, we assessed the population 
      attributable fraction (PAF), an epidemiological tool that can be used to quantify 
      the proportion of road traffic injuries (RTIs) attributable to OSAS. For an apnea 
      hypopnea index >5, the weighed median and combined average of OSAS prevalence 
      were 4.4 (95% confidence interval (CI): 3.7-7.5) and 4.7 (95% CI: 4.2-5.2), 
      respectively; values of risk of OSAS-dependent MVAs were 2.83 (95% CI: 2.72-3.08) 
      and 2.52 (95% CI: 2.07-3.08), respectively. The PAF showed weighed median and 
      combined average values of 6.6 (95% CI: 4.3-9.8) and 7.3% (95% CI: 6.0-13.5), 
      respectively. Our results show that about 7% of RTIs for a population of male 
      drivers involved in MVAs are attributable to OSAS. This value can be used to 
      assess the potential impact, on the reduction of incidence of the motor vehicle 
      injuries, of prevention programs aimed at reducing the number of subjects with an 
      undiagnosed and/or untreated OSAS.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2015.
FAU - Garbarino, Sergio
AU  - Garbarino S
AD  - Department of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Genetics, Sleep Medicine Center, 
      University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy State Police Health Service Department, 
      Ministry of the Interior, Rome, Italy.
FAU - Pitidis, Alessio
AU  - Pitidis A
AD  - Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Environment and Trauma Unit, 
      National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
FAU - Giustini, Marco
AU  - Giustini M
AD  - Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Environment and Trauma Unit, 
      National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
FAU - Taggi, Franco
AU  - Taggi F
AD  - Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Environment and Trauma Unit, 
      National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
FAU - Sanna, Antonio
AU  - Sanna A
AD  - Pneumology Unit, Azienda USL 3 Pistoia - Pneumology Unit, San Jacopo Hospital, 
      Pistoia, Italy antonio.cagliari@live.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150713
PL  - England
TA  - Chron Respir Dis
JT  - Chronic respiratory disease
JID - 101197408
SB  - IM
MH  - Accidents, Traffic/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Causality
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Odds Ratio
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Public Health
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - Sleep Apnea, Obstructive/*epidemiology
MH  - Wounds and Injuries/*epidemiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
OT  - motor vehicle accidents
OT  - population attributable fraction
OT  - public health
OT  - road traffic injuries
EDAT- 2015/07/15 06:00
MHDA- 2016/08/11 06:00
CRDT- 2015/07/15 06:00
PHST- 2015/07/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/07/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/08/11 06:00 [medline]
AID - 1479972315594624 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/1479972315594624 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chron Respir Dis. 2015 Nov;12(4):320-8. doi: 10.1177/1479972315594624. Epub 2015 
      Jul 13.