The Impact of Mouth-Taping in Mouth-Breathers with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Preliminary Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Ethics Statement
2.2. Study Population
2.3. Study Design
2.4. Home Sleep Test (HST)
2.5. Mouth-Taping
2.6. Data Collection
2.7. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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n (%) or Median (IQR) | |
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Age (in years) | 38 (30–43) |
Sex (male/female) | 19 (95.0%)/1 (5.0%) |
Height (cm) | 175 (170.9–177.25) |
Weight (kg) | 74 (67.7–79.5) |
BMI (kg/m2) | 24.5 (23.6–26.0) |
Mouth-Breathing | Nasal-Breathing | Changes (Percentage %) † | |||||
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HST Parameters | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | p-Value |
AHI (event/h) | 8.3 | 6.2–12.9 | 4.7 | 2.7–7.6 | −47% | −59%~−23% | 0.0002 |
AI (event/h) | 1.7 | 0.8–3.9 | 0.6 | 0.2–1.8 | −51% | −76%~−18% | 0.002 |
HI (event/h) | 5.6 | 4.5–8.7 | 4 | 2.4–5.9 | −44% | −56%~−14% | 0.003 |
Supine AHI (event/h) | 9.4 | 7.3–15.7 | 5.5 | 3.8–8.9 | −41% | −54%~−41% | 0.0001 |
Non-supine AHI (event/h) | 3.2 | 0.1–5.0 | 0.6 | 0.1–2.2 | −55% | −95%~−44% | 0.03 |
Mean saturation (%) | 95 | 94.5–95.5 | 95 | 94.5–96 | 0% | −1%~1% | 0.9 |
Lowest saturation (%) | 82.5 | 80.5–88 | 87 | 84–89.5 | 2% | −1%~8% | 0.049 |
90% saturation (%) | 1 | 0–2.5 | 0 | 0–1 | −67% | −100%~0% | 0.12 |
ODI (event/h) | 8.7 | 6.6–12.8 | 5.8 | 3.3–8.1 | −36% | −58%~−20% | 0.0003 |
Snoring index (event/h) | 303.8 | 137.8–348.3 | 121.1 | 41.8–168.4 | −47% | −59%~−23% | 0.0002 |
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Lee, Y.-C.; Lu, C.-T.; Cheng, W.-N.; Li, H.-Y. The Impact of Mouth-Taping in Mouth-Breathers with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Preliminary Study. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1755. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091755
Lee Y-C, Lu C-T, Cheng W-N, Li H-Y. The Impact of Mouth-Taping in Mouth-Breathers with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Preliminary Study. Healthcare. 2022; 10(9):1755. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091755
Chicago/Turabian StyleLee, Yi-Chieh, Chun-Ting Lu, Wen-Nuan Cheng, and Hsueh-Yu Li. 2022. "The Impact of Mouth-Taping in Mouth-Breathers with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Preliminary Study" Healthcare 10, no. 9: 1755. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091755