To study the relationship between occupational injury and AHI adjusted for age, sex, and BMI in patients referring to the sleep clinic at Baharloo Hospital, Tehran

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between occupational injury and AHI adjusted for age, sex and BMI in patients referring to the sleep clinic at Baharloo Hospital, Tehran. The study is practical in purpose and descriptive in experimental methods. Patients with obstructive sleep apnea were divided into her three groups based on the apnea hypopnea index (AHI): mild: AHI = 14-5, moderate: AHI = 15-29, and severe: AHI ≥ 30. The sample size was set to 259 individuals. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software. The mean body mass index for the sample population is 29.79 with a standard deviation of 5.4. The mean and standard deviation of the ages of the study population are 41.5 and 9.7 years, respectively. Results showed that hypopnea-apnea index and lack of treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea were associated with occupational injuries, even after adjusting for the effects of age, gender, and BMI variables.