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Encouraged by these promising results, we wanted to investigate if a detection dog could work as a screening tool for OSA. The objective of this study was to prospectively assess the dogs\u2019 ability to identify sleep apnea in patients with OSA suspicion.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Urine samples were collected from 50 patients suspected of having OSA. The urine sample was classified as positive for OSA when the patient had a respiratory event index of 5\/h or more. The accuracy of two trained dogs in identifying OSA was tested in a prospective blinded setting.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Both of the dogs correctly detected approximately half of the positive and negative samples. 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