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Posted on June 11, 2008

Earlier this week preliminary data from the Sleep Heart Health Study was presented. It appears that in patients without significant preexisting cardiovascular disease, moderate to severe osa (apnea-hypopnea index of greater than 30 with events requiring a 4% desat) over a 10 year period led to only modest increases in the risk of incident coronary artery disease in men younger than 70 (about 1.35x risk), and no to minimal increased risk in older men and in women. The stroke risk however was significantly elevated in men, but not in women with an ahi of greater than 30. Sleepiness appeared to i...

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