Prevalence and Determinants of Sleep Apnea in Patients with Stroke: A Meta-Analysis.

J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Electronic address:

Published: December 2021

AI Article Synopsis

  • Recent analyses show that about 70% of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke have sleep apnea, but previous studies had inconsistent results.
  • This updated meta-analysis examined 75 studies with 8,670 stroke patients to see if sleep apnea prevalence varies by stroke subtype, etiology, severity, and location.
  • Findings indicated higher prevalence of sleep apnea in hemorrhagic and certain ischemic stroke types, and variations were associated with stroke characteristics, explaining some inconsistencies in earlier research.

Article Abstract

Objectives: Recent meta-analyses have noted that ∼70% of transient ischemic attack (TIA)/stroke patients have sleep apnea. However, the heterogeneity between studies was high and did not appear to be accounted by the phase of stroke. We conducted an updated meta-analysis and aimed to determine whether the prevalence of sleep apnea amongst stroke patients differs by the subtype, etiology, severity and location of stroke and hence could account for some of the unexplained heterogeneity observed in previous studies.

Materials And Methods: We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL and Cochrane Library (from their commencements to July 2020) for studies which reported the prevalence of sleep apnea by using polysomnography in TIA/stroke patients. We used random-effects model to calculate the pooled prevalence of sleep apnea and explored whether the prevalence differed by stroke characteristics.

Results: Seventy-five studies describing 8670 stroke patients were included in this meta-analysis. The overall prevalence of sleep apnea was numerically higher in patients with hemorrhagic vs. ischemic stroke [82.7% (64.4-92.7%) vs. 67.5% (63.2-71.5%), p=0.098], supratentorial vs. infratentorial stroke [64.4% (56.7-71.4%) vs. 56.5% (42.2-60.0%), p=0.171], and cardioembolic [74.3% (59.6-85.0%)] vs. other ischemic stroke subtypes [large artery atherosclerosis: 68.3% (52.5-80.7%), small vessel occlusion: 56.1% (38.2-72.6%), others/undetermined: 47.9% (31.6-64.6%), p=0.089]. The heterogeneity in sleep apnea prevalence was partially accounted by the subtype (1.9%), phase (5.0%) and location of stroke (14.0%) among reported studies.

Conclusions: The prevalence of sleep apnea in the stroke population appears to differ by the subtype, location, etiology and phase of stroke.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2021.106129DOI Listing

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