Prevalence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Among Atrial Fibrillation Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study from Jordan.
Rasheed K IbdahKhaled J ZaitounRana B AltawalbehSaad H TayyemUlla A NazzalSukaina I RawashdehYousef Saleh KhaderAbdel-Hameed W Al-MistarehiBasheer Y KhassawnehPublished in: Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare (2024)
These results serve to display a statistically significant increase in high-risk OSA in existing AF patients, irrespective of the presence of conventional OSA risk factors; this could imply a more immediate and direct relationship between both diseases and calls to include routine screening for OSA in patients diagnosed, newly or otherwise, with AF.