Continuous positive airway pressure improves sleepiness but not calculated vascular risk in patients with minimally symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea: the MOSAIC randomised controlled trial.

Journal article

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for symptomatic obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) improves sleepiness and reduces vascular risk, but such treatment for the more prevalent, minimally symptomatic disease is contentious.

Authors: Craig, SE; Kohler, M; Nicoll, D; Bratton, D; Nunn, A

• Journal: Thorax
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 1090-1096
• Publication date: 2012-12-01
• DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202178
• EISSN: 1468-3296
• ISSN: 0040-6376
• Language: English
• Keywords: Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Middle Aged; Risk Assessment; Humans; Risk Factors; Health Status Indicators; Cardiovascular Diseases; Male; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; Female; Treatment Outcome; Canada; Great Britain; Questionnaires