The Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Bronchiolitis Severity in Children with Down Syndrome

Overview

Journal Sleep Med

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 2021 May 22

PMID 34022496

Authors

Po-Yang Tsou

Christopher M Cielo

Melissa S Xanthopoulos

Yu-Hsun Wang

Pei-Lun Kuo

Ignacio E Tapia

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Abstract

Objectives: Acute bronchiolitis commonly causes respiratory failure in children ≤2 years, and is particularly severe in those with Down syndrome (DS). Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), common in DS, is also associated with respiratory complications. However, it is unknown whether OSA is associated with worse outcomes in children with and without DS, hospitalized with bronchiolitis. We hypothesized that in children with bronchiolitis, OSA is associated with worse outcomes in those with DS, independent of DS-related comorbidities.

Methods: Hospital discharge records of children with bronchiolitis aged ≤2 years were obtained for 1997-2012 from the Kid's Inpatient Database. The primary outcome was invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and secondary outcomes were non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV), length of hospital stay, and inflation-adjusted cost of hospitalization (IACH). Multivariable regression was conducted to ascertain the associations between OSA and primary and secondary outcomes accounting for DS-associated comorbidities.

Results: There were 928,961 hospitalizations for bronchiolitis. The DS group with bronchiolitis (n = 8697) was more likely to have OSA [241 (2.77%) vs 1293 (0.14%), p < 0.001] compared to the non-DS group (n = 920,264). Multivariable logistic regression showed that OSA was associated with IMV (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 3.32 [95% CI 2.54-4.35], p < 0.0001) in all children with bronchiolitis; and in those with DS, it was associated with IMV (adjusted OR, 2.34 [95% CI 1.38-3.97], p = 0.002), NIMV (adjusted OR, 8.21 [95% CI 4.48-15.04], p < 0.0001) and IACH (adjusted β, 0.18 [95% CI 0.02-0.34], p = 0.031).

Conclusions: OSA is independently associated with assisted ventilation in all children hospitalized with bronchiolitis, regardless of DS-associated comorbidities in those with DS. The severity of bronchiolitis in children with DS may be driven by the high prevalence of OSA.

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