Do we need more screening for sleep apnea?
January 30, 2017 | POSTED BY: Michael Joyce is a writer & producer with HealthNewsReview.org Here we go again. To screen or not to screen, that is the question. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF), in a report published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, says there is not enough evidence to weigh the benefits and risks of screening for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adults who don’t have sleep-related symptoms. The USPTF–an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in preventive and evidence-based medicine–points out these results to do not apply to patients with clear symptoms …