The Epidemiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Cardiovascular Disease

Overview

Journal J Thorac Dis

Publisher AME Publishing Company

Specialty Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2019 Jan 29

PMID 30687535

Citations 18

Authors

Paroma Sarkar

Sutapa Mukherjee

Ching Li Chai-Coetzer

R Doug McEvoy

Affiliations

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Abstract

Obstructive sleep apnoea, the most common form of sleep-disordered breathing, is highly prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease. The last 30 years has seen a plethora of large scale epidemiological studies investigating the relationship between sleep apnoea and cardiovascular outcomes. This review highlights the key epidemiological studies addressing the links between sleep apnoea and hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, cerebrovascular disease, coronary artery disease, heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, with a particular focus on some of the most recent reports.

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