Is obstructive sleep apnea more prevalent in patients with atrial fibrillation compared to high-risk patients with other cardiovascular diseases?
There is a strong association between obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which is clinically important given the coinciding epidemics of obesity and AF.
The novel finding of this study is that a strong association exists between OSA and AF, such that OSA is strikingly more prevalent in patients with AF than in high-risk patients with multiple other cardiovascular diseases. The coinciding epidemics of obesity and AF underscore the clinical importance of these results.
Gami et al. (Tue,) studied this question.