Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation

By Ravi Kanagala, N. Murali, P. Friedman, N. Ammash, B. J. Gersh, K. Ballman, Abu S. M. Shamsuzzaman, Virend K. Somers. Circulation, 2003

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

1. Dobromir Petkov Dobrev
2. Jason G. Andrade
3. P. Khairy
4. Virend K. Somers
5. Stanley Nattel
6. S. Daniels
7. Emelia J. Benjamin
8. Gerhard Hindricks

In Physiology

1. T. Young
2. D. Gottlieb
3. Virend K. Somers
4. J. Floras
5. R. Mehra
6. Paul E. Peppard
7. Naresh M. Punjabi
8. Atul Malhotra

In Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

1. T. Young
2. Paul E. Peppard

Citations in the corpus

• The clinical profile and pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation: relationships among clinical features, epidemiology, and mechanisms. (2014, background): “Although it remains unclear whether OSA is independently and pathogenetically linked to AF or merely reflects a shared risk factor profile, the observation that continuous positive pressure ventilation reduces the risk of recurrent AF supports a causal role of OSA in AF pathogenesis.(53,55,56,59)”
• 2017 HRS/EHRA/ECAS/APHRS/SOLAECE expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation (2017, background): “Treatment of OSA with CPAP, however, appears to favorably impact AF management, regardless of the rhythm control strategy adopted.(315,316) Several studies have examined the impact of CPAP intervention on arrhythmia-free survival following catheter ablation of AF.”
• Pathophysiology of sleep apnea. (2010, background): “An association exists between OSA and atrial fibrillation (184, 212, 291); therefore, thromboembolism may be an important cause of stroke in OSA patients.”
• Association of nocturnal arrhythmias with sleep-disordered breathing: The Sleep Heart Health Study. (2006, background): “A preliminary report provided provocative data indicating that patients with untreated SDB and atrial fibrillation have a higher recurrence of atrial fibrillation after cardioversion than patients without a known SDB diagnosis (17).”
• Obstructive sleep apnea: a cardiometabolic risk in obesity and the metabolic syndrome. (2013, background): “12 patients is associated with lower recurrence of atrial fibrillation at 12 months compared to untreated patients (74).”
• Obesity and the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation. (2005, neutral): “(%) 92 (12) 195 (16) 118 (29) 201 (13) 250 (28) 165 (36)”
• 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): “Observational data suggest that the presence of untreated OSA in patients after successful cardioversion for atrial fibrillation is associated with an 82% risk for recurrence of atrial fibrillation within 1 year, about double the risk seen in effectively treated OSA patients after cardioversion (251”