Performance of six screening scores for obstructive sleep apnoea in an African population: findings from the BeSAS cross-sectional study
Ablo Prudence Wachinou, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Terence Totah, Geoffroy Solelhac, Mathieu Berger, Pervenche Fosto, Salmane Amidou, Attanon Arnauld Fiogbe, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Gildas Agodokpessi, Dismand Houinato, Roch Christian Johnson, Pierre-Marie Preux, Raphael Heinzer · 2026
Read Performance of six screening scores for obstructive sleep apnoea in an African population: findings from the BeSAS cross-sectional study by Ablo Prudence Wachinou, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Terence Totah, Geoffroy Solelhac, Mathieu Berger, Pervenche Fosto, Salmane Amidou, Attanon Arnauld Fiogbe, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Gildas Agodokpessi, Dismand Houinato, Roch Christian Johnson, Pierre-Marie Preux, Raphael Heinzer (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13197807.txt.
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Ablo Wachinou and co-authors test six screening scores for sleep apnoea in an African population. Their 2026 study comes from a Benin sleep survey where home sleep recording set the true diagnosis. A cheap paper screen matters where sleep labs are scarce.
More than eighteen hundred adults took part, most of them women. For mid to severe disease, two scores tied for the best overall curve scores, both modest. One strict score missed few healthy people but caught fewer cases. All scores did poorly at ruling disease in when positive. The authors back the strict score as a sorting aid in low-resource settings, with care. Scores alone, they stress, cannot replace real sleep tests.
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| CREATOR | Ablo Prudence Wachinou, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Terence Totah, Geoffroy Solelhac, Mathieu Berger, Pervenche Fosto, Salmane Amidou, Attanon Arnauld Fiogbe, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Gildas Agodokpessi, Dismand Houinato, Roch Christian Johnson, Pierre-Marie Preux, Raphael Heinzer |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |