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Re: Hypopnea - how many are reasonable?

Posted by AmyM on November 23, 2001 at 19:33:02:

In Reply to: Re: Hypopnea - how many are reasonable? posted by SleepyTimeGal on November 23, 2001 at 16:28:03:


YOu can have just as serious oxygen desats and sleep fragmentation with only hypopnea and no apnea at all, so I wouldn't accept too many. The AHI index that is considered in the "normal" range is something like 5 per hour. Between 5-10 would be mildly abnormal.

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