
Phenotyping in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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The Sleepy Subtype Is the Increased Cardiovascular Risk
The data we have in the sleep heart health study said it was only the excessively sleepy people that had the increased cardiovascular risk. It's hardly debated about was that appropriate? How do you deal with it? The most of them are almost all were not treated. In Western Australia, they recruited every consecutive patient for a period of years into this cohort to be part of these trials. And the large randomized trials is somewhere around 5% or 10%. So most of the patients, those who were in these trials are not the patients that we see chronically. These trials do not prove the sleep and it does not benefit cardiovascular disease.
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