The hypoxic burden of sleep apnoea predicts cardiovascular disease-related mortality: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study and the Sleep Heart Health Study

Azarbarzin, Ali; A. Sands, Scott; L. Stone, Katie; Taranto‐Montemurro, Luigi; Messineo, Ludovico; I. Terrill, Philip; Ancoli‐Israel, Sonia; E. Ensrud, Kristine; Purcell, Shaun; P. White, David; Redline, Susan; Wellman, Andrew

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy624

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The hypoxic burden of sleep apnoea predicts cardiovascular disease-related mortality: the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men Study and the Sleep Heart Health Study

Published in European Heart Journal • Sep 18, 2018

Authors:

Ali Azarbarzin

Scott A. Sands

Katie L. Stone

Abstract

AIMS: Apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI), the universal clinical metric of sleep apnoea severity, poorly predicts the adverse outcomes of sleep apnoea, potentially because the AHI, a frequency measure, does not adequately capture disease burden. Therefore, we sought to evaluate whether quantifying the sev...

Subject

Medicine

Sleep (system call)

Cardiovascular health

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