Ambulatory blood pressure and left ventricular hypertrophy in subjects with untreated obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring, compared with matched control subjects, and their response to treatment.

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1. Obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring are associated with daytime hypertension. It is uncertain whether this association is directly due to the disturbed sleeping respiration or the result of confounding variables, particularly obesity, smoking and alcohol intake. 2. Ambulatory blood pressure and echocardiographic left ventricular muscle mass were measured in 19 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea, 19 men who snore without apnoea and 38 control subjects matched for age, sex, body mass in...

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Authors: Davies, R; Crosby, J; Prothero, A; Stradling, JR

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Clinical science (London, England : 1979)
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 417-424
• Publication date: 1994-04-01
• EISSN: 1470-8736
• ISSN: 0143-5221
• Language: English
• Keywords: Snoring; Sleep Apnea Syndromes; Polysomnography; Echocardiography; Monitoring, Physiologic; Blood Pressure Determination; Hypertension; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular; Humans; Middle Aged; Positive-Pressure Respiration; Male