Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Diseases: Sad Realities and Untold Truths regarding Care of Patients in 2022.
Cardiovasc Ther
; 2022: 6006127, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2009237
ABSTRACT
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common and serious sleep-related breathing disorders with a high prevalence among patients with cardiovascular (CV) diseases. Despite its widespread presence, OSA remains severely undiagnosed and untreated. CV mortality and morbidity are significantly increased in the presence of OSA as it is associated with an increased risk of resistant hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmias, and coronary artery disease. Evaluation and treatment of OSA should focus on recognizing patients at risk of developing OSA. The use of screening questionnaires should be routine, but a formal polysomnography sleep study is fundamental in establishing and classifying OSA. Recognition of OSA patients will allow for the institution of appropriate therapy that should alleviate OSA-related symptoms with the intent of decreasing adverse CV risk. In this review, we focus on the impact OSA has on CV disease and evaluate contemporary OSA treatments. Our goal is to heighten awareness among CV practitioners.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cardiovascular Diseases
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Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
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Heart Failure
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Hypertension
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Cardiovasc Ther
Journal subject:
Vascular Diseases
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Cardiology
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Therapeutics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
2022
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