STOP BANG test

[beth0277]

Just curious where most of you fall on the STOP BANG test scoring system (before CPAP therapy if you are being treated). This is supposed to be a good indicator of your risk of OSA. If you answer yes to 3 or more questions, you are "high risk" for sleep apnea. Curious to see where everyone falls.

1. Snoring
Do you snore loudly (louder than talking or loud enough to be heard
through closed doors)?
Yes No
2. Tired
Do you often feel tired, fatigued, or sleepy during daytime?
Yes No
3. Observed
Has anyone observed you stop breathing during your sleep?
Yes No
4. Blood pressure
Do you have or are you being treated for high blood pressure?
Yes No
5. BMI
BMI more than 35 kg/m2?
Yes No
6. Age
Age over 50 yr old?
Yes No
7. Neck circumference
Neck circumference greater than 40 cm?
Yes No
8. Gender
Gender male?
Yes No
* Neck circumference is measured by staff
High risk of OSA: answering yes to three or more items
Low risk of OSA: answering yes to less than three items

[chunkyfrog]

Yes to six.
I asked my husband if he ever heard me stop breathing; he said he couldn't hear me breathing--just snoring.
Remembering that his hearing is impaired, I then asked if my snoring was smooth or broken up; he said broken up.
So, my point is: I believe that question needs to be phrased to get a response from a hard-of-hearing (HOH) bed partner.

[RocketGirl]

I can say yes to only two of those questions.

[Lizistired]

Over 50 and tired. No to all the rest.

[ThirdOutOfFive]

Yes to being tired, BMI overage & age. No to all the rest.

[MaxDarkside]

Yes to six. I'm quite thin, 6' 1", 160 lbs. else I would have gotten 'em all...

[SS343]

The only Bangs test I know of is for cattle. Is there a prize for scoring 100? Yea, an air thingy that blows up your nose! Wow! How lucky am I! Actually really lucky. I've been papped for several years with virtually no discomfort or problems.

[cowlypso]

The only one I could answer yes to was the tiredness. Which meant that my doctor had to talk to the insurance company's doctor and beg for me to get a PSG because insurance didn't think it was medically necessary.

[ems]

Yes to two -- still have severe sleep apnea.

[cindjo717]

yes to two and I have mod to severe positional for me.

[billbolton]

Just curious where most of you fall on the STOP BANG test scoring system....

May be useful for some very specific purposes related to theatre procedures, or when used in conjunction with another method, but by itself...

• CONCLUSIONS: The AL-AHI or the Stop Bang questionnaire are not sensitive enough to use as screening tools....
  http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/cgi/c ... racts/944A

Cheers,

Bill

[Kairosgrammy]

Yes to 5. Guess I fulfilled my destiny.

Just curious where most of you fall on the STOP BANG test scoring system (before CPAP therapy if you are being treated). This is supposed to be a good indicator of your risk of OSA. If you answer yes to 3 or more questions, you are "high risk" for sleep apnea. Curious to see where everyone falls.

1. Snoring
Do you snore loudly (louder than talking or loud enough to be heard
through closed doors)?
Yes No
2. Tired
Do you often feel tired, fatigued, or sleepy during daytime?
Yes No
3. Observed
Has anyone observed you stop breathing during your sleep?
Yes No
4. Blood pressure
Do you have or are you being treated for high blood pressure?
Yes No
5. BMI
BMI more than 35 kg/m2?
Yes No
6. Age
Age over 50 yr old?
Yes No
7. Neck circumference
Neck circumference greater than 40 cm?
Yes No
8. Gender
Gender male?
Yes No
* Neck circumference is measured by staff
High risk of OSA: answering yes to three or more items
Low risk of OSA: answering yes to less than three items

[tetragon]

If I were to use my opinion at that time, I wouldn't have said yes to any of them. My doctor's opinion at that time would have yes to one of them, being tired during the day. Her constant comments on how tired I looked, and that she could give me something for that led to me eventually (okay, closer to a month since she decided that it wasn't my iron levels) booking an appointment about sleep. At the end of that appointment, she did give me something: a copy of the patient instructions for a sleep study. It was booked because of insomnia and daytime sleepiness.

[robysue]

Three:

Yes to "tired" and "over 50", which had been written off to menopause, minor arthritis etc.

And yes to the biggie: "Has anyone observed you stop breathing during your sleep?" That's the one that triggered the sleep test ...

[RocketGirl]

May be useful for some very specific purposes related to theatre procedures, or when used in conjunction with another method, but by itself...

• CONCLUSIONS: The AL-AHI or the Stop Bang questionnaire are not sensitive enough to use as screening tools....
  http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/cgi/c ... racts/944A

Cheers,

Bill

I'm very glad you posted this, because I suspect that this kind of questionnaire does more harm than good. Question 10 eliminates half the population, Question 1 can only be answered by people with a sleeping partner who sleeps lightly, and Question 2 can only be answered if a person has a roommate or family member with very good hearing living with them. That's 3 out of 10 questions that are basically useless, and that's enough to badly skew any results from the questionnaire.