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Severity of obstructive sleep apnea and extension of coronary artery disease.

Silveria J Rivera-PérezDenis MartinezGustavo Neves de AraujoSandro C GoncalvesLaura K LazzarettiRodrigo V WainsteinMarco V WainsteinJorge P Ribeiro
Published in: Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung (2018)
In patients undergoing coronary angiography due to suspected CAD, moderate-severe OSA was associated with the presence of CAD but no significant correlation was found between the lesion severity and the AHI. Our results suggest that OSA influences CAD pathogenesis but a dose-response relationship is unlikely.
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