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. 1981 Mar;74(3):192-5.
doi: 10.1177/014107688107400306.

Sleep apnoea in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy

P J Rees, J G Prior, G M Cochrane, T J Clark

Sleep apnoea in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy

P J Rees et al. J R Soc Med. 1981 Mar.

Abstract

Breathing during sleep was monitored in 8 diabetic patients with objective evidence of autonomic neuropathy and in 8 diabetic patients without neuropathy. Thirty or more periods of apnoea lasting 10 seconds or longer during one night's sleep were demonstrated in 3 of the diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy. Such apnoeic periods may be related to the high incidence of cardiorespiratory arrests reported in such patients, particularly in association with anaesthesia or pneumonia.

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