Associations between ankle-brachial index, diabetes, and sleep apnea in the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) database.
Mohammed M AlshehriAbdulfattah S AlqahtaniAqeel M AlenaziMonira AldhahiShaima AlothmanCorey GrayBader AlqahtaniKamlesh KhuntiPatricia KludingPublished in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2020)
These findings suggest that people with DM and abnormal ABI were more likely to have high apnea-hypopnea index compared to the other groups. We observed gradual increasing in the severity of sleep apnea from low abnormality groups to high abnormality groups for Hispanic/Latino. Further work should elucidate the association of DM, abnormal ABI and sleep apnea with longer term outcomes, and replicate this work in different populations.