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Is autonomic neuropathy associated with an increased frequency of sleep apnoea in diabetic patients?
Is autonomic neuropathy associated with an increased frequency of sleep apnoea in diabetic patients?
Diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy may experience significant sleep apnoea, potentially contributing to the high incidence of cardiorespiratory arrests in this population.
May associate autonomic neuropathy with sleep apnoea in diabetes; leaves open contribution to cardiorespiratory arrests.
Breathing during sleep was monitored in 8 diabetic patients with objective evidence of autonomic neuropathy and in 8 diabetic patients without neuropathy. Thirty or more periods of apnoea lasting 10 seconds or longer during one night's sleep were demonstrated in 3 of the diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy. Such apnoeic periods may be related to the high incidence of cardiorespiratory arrests reported in such patients, particularly in association with anaesthesia or pneumonia.
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