Dissociation of obstructive sleep apnea from hypersomnolence and obesity in patients with stroke.
Dissociation of obstructive sleep apnea from hypersomnolence and obesity in patients with stroke.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.109.566463
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发表时间:
2010-03
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8.3
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Bradley TD
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Arzt M;Young T;Peppard PE;Finn L;Ryan CM;Bayley M;Bradley TD
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is seldom considered in the diagnostic investigation in the post-stroke period even though it is a stroke risk factor and has adverse prognostic implications following stroke. One reason might be that widely used clinical criteria for detection of OSA in the general community are not applicable in stroke patients. We hypothesized that stroke patients report less sleepiness and are less obese than subjects from a community sample with the same severity of OSA. We performed polysomnography in 96 consecutive stroke patients admitted to a stroke rehabilitation unit and in a community sample of 1,093 subjects without a history of stroke. We compared the degrees of subjective sleepiness assessed by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and body-mass index between the two samples according OSA-categories assessed by the frequency of apneas and hypopneas per hour of sleep (<5, no OSA; 5 to <15 mild OSA; and ≥15, moderate-severe OSA). Compared to the community sample, stroke patients with OSA had significantly lower ESS scores and BMI for mild OSA (ESS 9.3±0.3 versus 5.6±0.5, p<0.001, and BMI 33.1±0.5 versus 28.5±1.1, p<0.048), and for moderate-severe OSA (ESS 9.7±0.4 versus 7.1±0.9, p=0.043, and BMI 36.4±0.8 versus 27.2±0.8 kg/m2, p<0.025). For a given severity of OSA, stroke patients had less daytime sleepiness and lower BMI than subjects without stroke. These factors may make the diagnosis OSA elusive in the post-stroke period, and preclude many such patients from the potential benefits of OSA therapy.