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Review
. 2018 Dec;10(Suppl 34):S4189-S4200.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.56.

The epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea and cardiovascular disease

Paroma Sarkar  1 , Sutapa Mukherjee  1   2 , Ching Li Chai-Coetzer  1   2 , R Doug McEvoy  2
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Review

The epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea and cardiovascular disease

Paroma Sarkar et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Dec.

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.

Keywords: Epidemiology; cardiovascular; obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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