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Sleep Disordered Breathing and Risk of Stroke in Older Community-Dwelling Men
Author(s) -
Katie L. Stone,
Terri Blackwell,
Sonia AncoliIsrael,
Elizabeth BarrettConnor,
Douglas C. Bauer,
Jane A. Cauley,
Kristine E. Ensrud,
Andrew R. Hoffman,
Reena Mehra,
Marcia L. Stefanick,
Paul D. Varosy,
Kristine Yaffe,
Susan Redline
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.5520
Subject(s) - stroke (engine) , sleep disordered breathing , medicine , hypoxemia , cohort , sleep (system call) , breathing , obstructive sleep apnea , cardiology , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , computer science , engineering , operating system
Men with sleep disordered breathing (SDB) may be at increased stroke risk, due to nocturnal hypoxemia, sleep loss or fragmentation, or other mechanisms. We examined the association of SDB with risk of incident stroke in a large cohort of older men.

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