Effect of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment on Blood Pressure in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

By H. Becker, A. Jerrentrup, T. Ploch, D. Psych, L. Grote, T. Penzel, C. Sullivan, J. Peter. Circulation, 2003

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Controlled trial of continuous positive airway pressure in obstructive sleep apnea and heart failure. (2004, methodology): “OSA has been causally linked to hypertension ( 10 , 34).”
Evaluation of positive airway pressure treatment for sleep related breathing disorders in adults. (2006, background): “The largest number of comparative studies (7) was for split night (SN) attended PSG.”
Obstructive sleep apnea: implications for cardiac and vascular disease. (2003, background): “In 1997, the sixth report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure first acknowledged the importance of sleep apnea by recommending that OSA be ruled out as a contributor to resistant hypertension.91 The most recent recommendations pu”
Pathophysiology of sleep apnea. (2010, background): “13) (41, 158, 237, 393, 451, 503), whereas others have not (81, 560).”
Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: an American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research Professional Education Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke Council, and Coun (2008, background): “The greater changes in BP seen in 1 study (157) may have a number of explanations: The duration of CPAP use was longer, the subjects were more hypertensive, and the device used to record BP may have caused less interference with sleep.”