Obstructive sleep apnea and multimorbidity

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 3 Bivariate analysis with dichotomized polysomnography results

Variable	r*	pvalue
BMI	0.261	0.01
Neck circumference	0.265	0.05
Sex	0.244	0.01
Income	0.218	0.05
Vascular DBMA (sub-score)	0.261	0.01
Cardiac DBMA (sub-score)	0.196	0.05
Metabolic syndrome DBMA (sub-score)	0.261	0.01
DBMA score	0.117	0.205
Age	0.132	0.151
Marital status	0.109	0.090
Place of birth	0.085	0.355
Education	-0.026	0.780

Dichotomized polysomnography: 0 = absent + mild; 1 = moderate + severe
DBMA sub-score: Cardiac DBMA: Hypertension, heart disease, dyslipidemia, heart failure; Vascular DBMA: Hypertension, heart disease, dyslipidemia, heart failure, stroke;
Metabolic syndrome DBMA: Hypertension, cholesterol, obesity and diabetes
*Spearman correlation.

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