TY - JOUR T1 - The risk of future cardiovascular diseases in the patients with OSAS is dependently or independently associated with obstructive sleep apnoea JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 573 LP - 574 DO - 10.1183/09031936.01.17305730 VL - 17 IS - 3 AU - S. Teramoto AU - H. Kume AU - T. Matsuse AU - Y. Fukuchi Y1 - 2001/03/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/17/3/573.abstract N2 - To the Editor: In the recent issue of European Respiratory Journal, Kiely and McNicolas have sophisticatedly demonstrated that the increased risk of future cardiovascular diseases is independent of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) 1. Although many investigators have reported that there is a significant link between OSA and the cardiovascular events, they insisted that the patients with OSAS are at high risk of future cardiovascular diseases from factors, i.e. diabetes mellitus, hypertension, … ER -