Cardiovascular Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Patients with Heart Failure and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Kaneko, Yasuyuki; S. Floras, John; Usui, Kengo; Plante, Julie; Tkáčová, Ružena; Kubo, Toshihiko; Ando, Shin‐ichi; Douglas Bradley, T.

doi:10.1056/nejmoa022479

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Cardiovascular Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Patients with Heart Failure and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 27, 2003

Authors:

Yasuyuki Kaneko

John S. Floras

Kengo Usui

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea subjects the failing heart to adverse hemodynamic and adrenergic loads and may thereby contribute to the progression of heart failure. We hypothesized that treatment of obstructive sleep apnea by continuous positive airway pressure in patients with heart failure w...

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Medicine

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Cardiology

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