The epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea and cardiovascular disease | Zendy

Paroma Sarkar | Zendy; Sutapa Mukherjee | Zendy; Ching Li ChaiCoetzer | Zendy; R. Doug McEvoy | Zendy

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The epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnoea and cardiovascular disease

Author(s) -

Paroma Sarkar,

Sutapa Mukherjee,

Ching Li ChaiCoetzer,

R. Doug McEvoy

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.56

Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , disease , coronary artery disease , sleep (system call) , intensive care medicine , cardiology , computer science , operating system

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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