Risk of incident obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with type 1 diabetes: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

People with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of developing obstructive sleep apnoea. However, it is not known whether people with type 1 diabetes are also at an increased risk of obstructive sleep apnoea. This study aimed to examine whether people with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk of incident obstructive sleep apnoea compared with a matched cohort without type 1 diabetes.

Methods

We used a UK primary care database, The Health Improvement Network (THIN), to perform a retrospective cohort study between January 1995 and January 2018 comparing sleep apnoea incidence between patients with type 1 diabetes (exposed) and without type 1 diabetes (unexposed) (matched for age, sex, BMI and general practice). The outcome was incidence of obstructive sleep a

SUBMITTER: Alshehri Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9283161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature