Patients will be recruited from the Pneumology outpatient clinic of UNIFESP, Patients had been diagnosed with COPD in GOLD's stages II and III, were stable (no COPD exacerbation in the last three months), were using bronchodilators without a dose change during that period, and had symptoms suggestive of OSAS (loud snoring, reported breathing pauses during sleep and excessive sleepiness). We excluded patients with other sleep-related disorders, a diagnosis and/or previous treatment for OSAS, severe cardiovascular disorders or neuromuscular disease and those using oxygen, psychotropic drugs, alcohol or other drugs of abuse.
Patients will undergo two assessments of sleep, randomly determined: 1) PM at home for one night, 2) PM in the sleep laboratory simultaneously to the PSG. Three apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) values will be obtained and analyzed: a) AHI from PM at home, b) AHI from PM in the laboratory, and c) AHI from the PSG. Analyses of all evaluations will be performed by two trained technicians, blinded to study details.
