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The Lancet

Volume 345, Issue 8957, 29 April 1995, Pages 1085-1087
The Lancet

Sleep apnoea and nocturnal angina

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Abstract

Hypoxaemia occurs with sleep apnoea and might induce nocturnal angina. Sleep apnoea was found in 9 of 10 patients with nocturnal angina pectoris. Nocturnal angina diminished during treatment of sleep apnoea by continuous positive airway-pressure, and the number of nocturnal myocardial ischaemic events measured by computerised vector-cardiography was reduced.

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