Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can have a devastating effect on patients’ health and quality of life, and its prevalence has dramatically increased in recent years.1
Based on recent research, an estimated 936 million people globally between the ages of 30 to 69 have mild to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).1
The negative impact of poor sleep has become all but common knowledge among patients let alone medical and dental health professionals. Decades of research have
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CPAP Reduces Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Multiple lines of research show patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea are
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Sleep-disordered breathing and heart failure appear to have a bidirectional relationship.1 Obstructive sleep apnea is an independent risk factor to develop heart failure2. Of patients
Central sleep apnea is common among patients with chronic heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF), affecting about a third of patients.1,2 Indeed,
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