Extract
Recent decades have seen the publication of numerous studies on the association between excessive sleep disordered breathing (SDB), particularly sleep apnoea, and an increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. These studies have used a wide range of methodologies and criteria for patient inclusion. The results have been diverse, depending on the type of cardiovascular event or risk factor investigated, the patients' cardiovascular risk, the severity or type of the SDB, and the analysis of the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events [1].
Abstract
Sleep apnoea impacts negatively on different diseases beyond the cardiovascular sphere http://ow.ly/ZdOC309KHXD
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: None declared.
- Received February 10, 2017.
- Accepted February 10, 2017.
- Copyright ©ERS 2017