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More than half of hospitalized patients with heart failure have sleep apnea

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More than half of hospitalized adults with HF have obstructive sleep apnea or central sleep apnea, with male sex, higher BMI, higher heart rate and more comorbidities predicting sleep-disordered breathing, researchers reported.

“Considering the frequent co‐occurrence of sleep-disordered breathing in HF and its adverse prognosis, early diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing may be beneficial,” Jian Zhang, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC, director of the Heart Failure Center at Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, and colleagues wrote in Clinical Cardiology. Read more in Healio.

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Symptoms of insomnia, sleep apnea associated with increased mortality risk

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Symptoms of insomnia and sleep apnea were associated with a 56% increased risk for all-cause mortality, researchers reported in Sleep Epidemiology.

“Insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea are the two most common sleep disorders, each occurring in 10% to 30% of the general population, but in many patients the conditions can occur at the same time in what we call comorbid insomnia and sleep apnea,” Alexander Sweetman, PhD, co-author and a research fellow at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health at Flinders University in Australia, said in a release from the university. Read the full story in Healio.

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Sleep apnea-related mortality continuously increased in Black men in US over past 2 decades

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A new study published in Sleep Medicine highlights an uptrend in sleep-related mortality and associated cardiovascular disease outcomes among Black men in the U.S.

“Overall, a steady increase in mortality was seen from 1999 to 2008, but the rate remained flat throughout the remainder of the study period. This pattern was observed in Black females and both genders for whites. However, Black males are the only demographic group that had a continuous increase in mortality between 1999 and 2019,”Yu-Che Lee,MD, MPH, resident physician in the department of medicine at the University of Buffalo-Catholic Health System, New York, and colleagues wrote. Read the story in Healio.

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