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Table 3 Diagnosis of severe patients with AHI = 30 as the threshold using different combination of salient features

From: Validation of overnight oximetry to diagnose patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea

Data

Multiple variables

Single variable

Predictive index (%)

NC, BMI, ESS, ODI

ODI, ESS

ODI, BMI

ODI

ODI2

ODI3

ODI4T

ODI4A

Dataset 1 (N = 616)

Accuracy

90.42

90.58

90.58

90.42

87.2

89.5

87.8

89.8

Sensitivity

88.07

87.01

86.31

87.36

91.6

86.0

85.7

90.6

Specificity

92.44

93.65

94.25

93.05

83.3

92.4

89.7

89.1

AUC

0.958

0.956

0.954

0.957

0.938

0.942

0.912

0.913

Cutoff

-

-

-

-

27.2

18.4

11.2

13.7

Dataset 2 (N = 540)

Accuracy

90.18

90.37

89.81

90.55

87.6

90.0

88.5

89.3

Sensitivity

86.07

88.18

88.60

89.87

91.6

86.6

88.7

89.5

Specificity

93.39

92.07

90.75

91.08

84.4

92.7

88.4

89.1

AUC

0.952

0.946

0.950

0.953

0.945

0.946

0.913

0.913

Cutoff

-

-

-

-

27.2

18.4

10.4

13.7

  1. Note: ODI is the combination of ODI2 and ODI4A.