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Diagnosed Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease in Atrial Fibrillation Patients: The Role of Measurement Error from Administrative Data.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnea are common conditions, but little is known about obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular risk among atrial fibrillation patients.Methods
Using the Truven Health MarketScan databases, we constructed a prospective cohort of atrial fibrillation patients from 2007 to 2014. Atrial fibrillation, obstructive sleep apnea, stroke, myocardial infarction, and confounders were defined using the International Classification of Disease-9-CM codes. We matched individuals with an obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis with up to five individuals without a diagnosis by age, sex, and enrollment date. Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for confounders and high-dimensional propensity scores. We included migraines as a control outcome. Bias analysis used published sensitivities and specificities to generate rate ratios adjusted for obstructive sleep apnea misclassification.Results
We matched 56,969 individuals with an obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis to 323,246 without. During a mean follow-up of 16 months, 3234 incident strokes and 4639 incident myocardial infarctions occurred. After adjustment, obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis was strongly associated with reduced risk of incident stroke (hazard ratio = 0.48, 95% confidence interval = 0.43, 0.53) and myocardial infarction (0.40, [0.37, 0.44]) and a smaller reduced risk of migraines (0.82, [0.68, 0.99]). Bias analysis produced wide-ranging or inestimable rate ratios adjusted for misclassification of obstructive sleep apnea.Conclusions
Obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis in atrial fibrillation patients was strongly associated with reduced risk of incident cardiovascular disease. We discuss misclassification, selection bias, and residual confounding as potential explanations.
SUBMITTER: Ogilvie RP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7993055 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Diagnosed Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease in Atrial Fibrillation Patients: The Role of Measurement Error from Administrative Data.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 20191101 6
<h4>Background</h4>Atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnea are common conditions, but little is known about obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular risk among atrial fibrillation patients.<h4>Methods</h4>Using the Truven Health MarketScan databases, we constructed a prospective cohort of atrial fibrillation patients from 2007 to 2014. Atrial fibrillation, obstructive sleep apnea, stroke, myocardial infarction, and confounders were defined using the International Classification of Dise ...[more]