Prevalence of Nocturnal Hypoventilation in Neuromuscular Diseases According to Different Definitions (TcCO2)

Centre d'Investigation Clinique et Technologique 805

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neuromuscular Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02356666

1817118

Details and patient eligibility

About

Different definitions of nocturnal hypoventilation are used in the recent literature. The investigators aimed to compare the prevalence of nocturnal hypoventilation in a neuromuscular disease's population according to different definitions issued from the literature.

Full description

Different definitions of nocturnal hypoventilation are used in the recent literature. Basing on retrospective data review, we aimed to compare the prevalence of nocturnal hypoventilation in the cohort of neuromuscular disease's patients followed at our reference center, according to different definitions issued from the literature.

Enrollment: 232 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neuromuscular disease
• Age ≥18 years
• Non mechanically ventilated

Exclusion criteria

• Long-term oxygen therapy