Diagnosis of sleep apnea in patients with stable chronic heart failure using a portable sleep test diagnostic device

ConclusionsOur results suggest that ApneaLink could be used in clinical practice to identify heart failure patients with high (AHI ≥ 15 events/h) and low (AHI<  5 events/h) probability of having sleep apnea, sparing the need for a diagnostic polysomnography and thus potentially impacting prognosis by providing a more cost-effective and timely diagnosis of this non-cardiac comorbidity.
Source: Sleep and Breathing - Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research