Clinical implications of sleep disordered breathing in acute myocardial infarction.

Sleep disordered breathing (SDB), characterized by nightly intermittent hypoxia, is associated with multiple pathophysiologic alterations that may adversely affect patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This prospective study investigated whether the metabolic perturbations associated with...

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Main Authors: Doron Aronson, Morad Nakhleh, Tawfiq Zeidan-Shwiri, Michael Mutlak, Peretz Lavie, Lena Lavie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3921254?pdf=render