Outcomes in coronary artery disease patients with sleepy obstructive sleep apnoea on CPAP.

ABSTRACT: Coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) have increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) compared with CAD patients without OSA. We aimed to address if the risk is similar in both groups when OSA patients are treated.This study was a parallel observational arm of the RICCADSA randomised controlled trial, conducted in Sweden between 2005 and 2013. Patients with revascularised CAD and OSA (apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) ≥15 events·h^-1) with daytime sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale score ≥10) were offered continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) (n=155); CAD patients with no OSA (AHI <5 events·h^-1) acted as controls (n=112), as a randomisation of sleepy OSA patients to no treatment would not b

SUBMITTER: Peker Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898935 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature