Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Overlooked Contributor to Complex Cardiometabolic Disease
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Lara Salahi
Summary
This article discusses how obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is often overlooked as a contributing factor in complex cardiometabolic diseases such as resistant hypertension, recurrent atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Many patients with OSA do not present with classic symptoms like snoring and daytime sleepiness, making diagnosis challenging. The article argues that clinicians should consider OSA as a potential underlying cause when patients have difficult-to-control cardiometabolic conditions, and that treating OSA can significantly improve outcomes for these patients.
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· 3 pulledOne contributor to persistent cardiometabolic disease that clinicians may overlook is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
The diagnostic challenge is that many patients with OSA do not present with the classic symptoms clinicians often associate with the disorder — snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness.
Instead, they may show up with difficult-to-control blood
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