Cardiovascular mortality in obstructive sleep apnea in the elderly: role of long-term continuous positive airway pressure treatment: a prospective observational study.

Rationale: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a risk factor for cardiovascular death in middle-aged subjects, but it is not known whether it is also a risk factor in the elderly.

Objectives: To investigate whether OSA is a risk factor for cardiovascular death and to assess whether continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment is associated with a change in risk in the elderly.

Methods: Prospective, observational study of a consecutive cohort of elderly patients (≥65 yr) studied for suspicion of OSA between 1998 and 2007.

Cardiovascular mortality in women with obstructive sleep apnea with or without continuous positive airway pressure treatment: a cohort study.

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a risk factor for cardiovascular death in men, but whether it is also a risk factor in women is unknown.

Objective: To investigate whether OSA is a risk factor for cardiovascular death in women and assess whether continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment is associated with a change in risk.

Design: Prospective, observational cohort study.

[Appropriateness of hospital stays in a pulmonology department].

Objective: To analyze the number of inappropriate stays generated by patients admitted through a pulmonology department over a 1-year period and to identify the causes and predictors of those stays.

Patients And Methods: A representative sample of hospital stays corresponding to patients admitted by the pulmonology department at Hospital de Valme, Seville, Spain, in 2004 was analyzed retrospectively using the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol. The review was conducted by 2 physicians who did not belong to the pulmonology department.

[Appropriateness of hospital admissions to a pulmonology department].

Objectives: To analyze the rate of inappropriate admissions to a pulmonology department over the period of a year and to establish the reasons for such admission and predictors.

Patients And Methods: All 2004 admissions to the pulmonology department of the Hospital de Valme were analyzed using a version of the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP) developed for concurrent review. Two physicians who were not directly involved in admitting the patients performed the review.

Mortality in obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea patients treated with positive airway pressure.

Study Objectives: The aims of this study were to analyze mortality in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) treated with positive airway pressure (PAP) and to know whether PAP compliance affects survival, as well as to investigate the prognostic value of several pretreatment variables.

Design And Patients: A study was made of an historical cohort of 871 patients in whom OSAHS had been diagnosed by sleep study between January 1994 and December 2000 and who had been treated with PAP. Patients were followed up until December 2001.