Is the Epworth Sleepiness Scale Sufficient to Identify the Excessively Sleepy Subtype of OSA?

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Volume 161, Issue 2, February 2022, Pages 557-561

: ∗Collaborators from the Sleep Apnea Global Interdisciplinary Consortium are listed in the Acknowledgments.

: FUNDING/SUPPORT: The development of this manuscript was supported by the NHLBI (P01 HL094307 and R01 HL134015), the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (194-SR-18; 235-SR-20), the American Heart Association (20CDA35310360) and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001878). EHT was funded by the Eimskip University Fund at the University of Iceland and the research fund of the Icelandic College of Family Physicians. The Sleep Heart Health Study was supported by the NHLBI through the following cooperative agreements: U01HL53940 (University of Washington), U01HL53941 (Boston University), U01HL63463 (Case Western Reserve University), U01HL53937 (Johns Hopkins University), U01HL53938 (University of Arizona), U01HL53916 (University of California, Davis), U01HL53 934 (University of Minnesota), U01HL63429 (Missouri Breaks Research), and U01HL539 31 (New York University). The National Sleep Research Resource was supported by the NHLBI (HL114473).