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Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea and validation of the OSA-5 questionnaire among children aged 2-7 years with adenotonsillar hypertrophy at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda: a prospective cross-sectional study

2026-06-28

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> Adenotonsillar hypertrophy is the commonest cause of paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Polysomnography is the reference diagnostic test, but it is costly, time-consuming and not routinely available in many low-resource settings, including Uganda. The OSA-5 questionnaire is a brief screening tool for sleep-disordered breathing. This study determined th...

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Literature Corpus work: 44de5009-ebf4-545c-9f0d-274e9b112986
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9724630/v1

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