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. 2010 Aug 24;56(9):742-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.04.032.

Under-diagnosis of sleep apnea in patients after acute myocardial infarction

Tomas Konecny, Fatima H Sert Kuniyoshi, Marek Orban, Gregg S Pressman, Tomas Kara, Apoor Gami, Sean M Caples, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Virend K Somers

Under-diagnosis of sleep apnea in patients after acute myocardial infarction

Tomas Konecny et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. .
No abstract available

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CONFLICTS OF INTERES: Dr Virend Somers has served as a consultant for ResMed, Cardiac Concepts, and Boston Scientific, and as a PI or co-investigator on grants from Respironics Foundation and Sorin Inc. He is also involved in intellectual property development in sleep and cardiovascular disease with Mayo Health Solutions and their industry partners.

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A: Documented or suspected obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients with myocardial infarction (MI); B: Documented or suspected OSA in MI patients recruited for polysomnography; C: Prevalence of OSA in MI Patients recruited for polysomnography; R1-3: For comparison we show prevalence of OSA in studies of patients with acute coronary syndromes [1: BaHammam A., et al.(4); 2: Mehra R., et al.(5); 3: Yumino D., et al.(3)]
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