Comparison Of Quality-Of-Life Questionnaires, In Patients with Osas

Abstract

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a chronic and progressive disease with high morbidity and mortality, affecting 4% of men and 2% of women [1]. It includes a wide variety of symptoms, the most important being snoring (90% of the case), excessive daytime sleepiness, altered mood, morning headache, impotency, decrease of intellectual yield and cardiology, neurological and metabolic changes [2].