TY - JOUR T1 - Sleep apnoea and post-stroke vascular events: is it only due to poor continuous positive airway pressure use? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 513 LP - 513 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00054412 VL - 40 IS - 2 AU - Aibek E. Mirrakhimov Y1 - 2012/08/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/2/513.abstract N2 - To the Editors:I read the recent European Respiratory Journal article by MartÍnez-GarcÍa et al. [1] with keen interest. The authors analysed 166 patients with recent ischaemic stroke and followed them for 7 yrs to study the impact of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) on new cardiovascular events. According to their results, 31 patients did not have OSA, 39 patients had mild-to-moderate OSA and 96 patients had moderate-to-severe OSA. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) was initiated 2 months after an acute cerebrovascular event in patients with moderate-to-severe disease only. However, 68 out of 96 participants in the severe OSA group did not tolerate CPAP. It is noteworthy to emphasise that noncompliant patients … ER -