Sleep Apnea Tied to Lower Risk of Cardiac Event Recurrence

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Decade-long study upends conventional wisdom

Individuals in a long-running cohort study with coronary heart disease who also had sleep apnea showed lower rates of recurrent cardiac events than otherwise similar participants without sleep apnea, researchers said here.

After adjusting for nearly a dozen potential confounders, the participants with sleep apnea were at 21% lower risk of recurrent events, defined as myocardial infarction or revascularizations (hazard ratio 0.79, 95% CI 0.65-0.97, per 10-point increase in baseline apnea/hypopnea index [AHI] value), with median 9.0 years of follow-up after enrollment, according to Neomi Shah, MD, MPH, of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y.