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AHI

Abbreviation for apnea-hypopnea index.
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AHI

Abbreviation for apnea-hypopnea index.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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We found differences between meanO2 and DI, found no differences between AHI and minO2 upon comparison of SM and PSG measurement methods.
The most widely used surgical therapy, UPPP, described in 1981 with only 41% of the patients undergoing UPPP, obtain an AHI of fewer than 20 events per hour of sleep, which is not labeled as an adequate surgical outcome.
A total of 72 (80%) patients had signs or symptoms associated with AHI that occurred within 2 weeks before undergoing NAT; of these 72 patients, 47 (52% of the study population) had ongoing signs or symptoms, while signs or symptoms had resolved by the time of testing for 25 (28% of the study population).
(9) accepted a decrease to below 50% compared to the preoperative AHI level and an AHI level of less than 20 as success criteria in their follow-up of their ESP surgery patients.
Both the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offer guidelines that can help you prioritize which type of tuna to eat to lower your risk of contributing to these problems--but to use these guides, you have to know where the ahi comes from and how it was caught.
"These results suggest that patients with higher AHI are significantly more likely to have low cTn-I levels than patients without evidence of OSA, which could imply that patients with elevated AHI, particularly those with severe OSA, may experience less severe myocardial injury," the authors said in the report.
Meanwhile, Didier Jardin, general manager of Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait at Burj Alshaya, said: "I would like to thank Havelock AHI Interiors.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that AHI is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting young people's health and development to ensure their successful transition to healthy and productive adulthood.
The patient exhibited significantly reduced apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) values without CPAP use.
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