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01-07-2016 | Critical Perspective
Impact of SERVE-HF on management of sleep disordered breathing in heart failure: a call for further studies
Authors:
Dominik Linz, Henrik Fox, Thomas Bitter, Jens Spießhöfer, Christoph Schöbel, Erik Skobel, Anke Türoff, Michael Böhm, Martin R. Cowie, Michael Arzt, Olaf Oldenburg
Published in:
Clinical Research in Cardiology
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Issue 7/2016
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Abstract
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) (obstructive sleep apnea, central sleep apnea/Cheyne–Stokes respiration or the combination of both) is highly prevalent in patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, arrhythmia, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and stroke (reviewed previously in the September issue of this journal). Its close association with outcomes in chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HF-REF) suggests that it may be a potential treatment target. Herein, we provide an update on SDB and its treatment in HF-REF.