CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease involves multiple pathways and outcomes, Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said at SLEEP 2022.
“There are multiple pathways that will lead from the cycle of apnea and recovery to multiple cardiovascular disease [CVD] outcomes, including arrhythmias, stroke, increased IOP, increased heart rate, organ dysfunction, etc.,” she said during the plenary session. “However, that complexity doesn’t even begin to address the variation in