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Hypertension and sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome: changes in echocardiographic abnormalities depending on the presence of hypertension and treatment with CPAP.

Abstract：

INTRODUCTION:Sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) is an emerging disease with high prevalence. There is controversy as to whether cardiac abnormalities are due to the disease itself or to the arterial hypertension frequently associated with this disease. OBJECTIVES:To analyze echocardiographic abnormalities in a population of SAHS patients depending on the presence or absence of hypertension at the time of diagnosis and after six months of treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). METHODS:We studied 85 consecutive patients diagnosed with SAHS who required treatment with CPAP (Hypertensive: 43, nonhypertensive: 42). We performed a baseline echocardiogram after six months of treatment. We analyzed morphological (wall thickness, diameters, ejection fraction) and functional (peak E- and A-wave velocities, deceleration time, Tei index) parameters of the left and right ventricles. RESULTS:Hypertensive patients were older and had higher blood pressure values, but there were no differences between groups in other clinical parameters. The hypertensive group had greater septal thickness (hypertensive: 12.1+/-2.3; nonhypertensive: 10.8+/-2.1mm; p=0.01). There were also differences in impairment of left (hypertensiveHT: 92.9%, nonhypertensive: 65%, p=0.002) and right (hypertensive: 74.4%, nonhypertensive: 42.1%, p=0.006) ventricular filling. After six months of treatment, an improvement of the myocardial performance index was noted in nonhypertensive patients (baseline Tei: 0.55+/-0.1 vs. 6-month Tei: 0.49+/-0.1; p=0.01), whereas no significant change was observed in hypertensive patients. CONCLUSIONS:Cardiac abnormalities in SAHS patients are increased in the presence of associated hypertension. Treatment with CPAP for six months improves cardiac abnormalities in nonhypertensive patients but not in hypertensive patients.

journal_name

Sleep Med

journal_title

Sleep medicine

authors

Moro JA,Almenar L,Fernández-Fabrellas E,Ponce S,Blanquer R,Salvador A

doi

10.1016/j.sleep.2008.03.008

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-03-01 00:00:00

pages

344-52

issue

eissn

1389-9457

issn

1878-5506

pii

S1389-9457(08)00069-5

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pub_type

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Hypertension and sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome: changes in echocardiographic abnormalities depending on the presence of hypertension and treatment with CPAP.