How AHI is calculated — and why home numbers differ from sleep lab
Patients on CPAP AHI calculation therapy routinely compare two AHI numbers that ought to tell the same story but don’t: the AHI from the diagnostic polysomnography (PSG), and the AHI calculation the home CPAP reports every morning. The home number is usually lower. Sometimes the lab number itself doesn’t match a second opinion from another lab. Neither
