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Cardiovascular Mortality in Women With Obstructive Sleep Apnea With or Without Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment

2012; American College of Physicians; Volume: 156; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7326/0003-4819-156-11-201206050-00013

1539-3704

Francisco Campos‐Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐García,

Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Letters5 June 2012Cardiovascular Mortality in Women With Obstructive Sleep Apnea With or Without Continuous Positive Airway Pressure TreatmentFrancisco Campos-Rodriguez, MD and Miguel A. Martinez-Garcia, MDFrancisco Campos-Rodriguez, MDFrom Valme Hospital, 41014 Seville, Spain, and La Fe Hospital, 46006 Valencia, Spain.Search for more papers by this author and Miguel A. Martinez-Garcia, MDFrom Valme Hospital, 41014 Seville, Spain, and La Fe Hospital, 46006 Valencia, Spain.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-156-11-201206050-00013 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We thank Dr. Finucane for his comments. He contends that analyzing patient subgroups on the basis of adherence can lead to misleading results. He also wonders how many patients in the untreated group had not been prescribed CPAP and how many were noncompliant.We agree that the observational design might introduce selection bias because inadequate CPAP compliance could be a marker for generally nonadherent behavior, and it was acknowledged as one of the most important limitations of our study. Nevertheless, it cannot be taken for granted that all women who were nonadherent to CPAP were noncompliant with other ...References1. Villar I, Izuel M, Carrizo S, Vicente E, Marin JM. Medication adherence and persistence in severe obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep. 2009;32:623-8. [PMID: 19480229] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Grupo Español de Sueño (GES). Consenso nacional sobre el síndrome de apneas-hipopneas del sueño. Arch Bronconeumol. 2005;41:1-100. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Francisco Campos-Rodriguez, MD; Miguel A. Martinez-Garcia, MDAffiliations: From Valme Hospital, 41014 Seville, Spain, and La Fe Hospital, 46006 Valencia, Spain.Disclosures: None disclosed. Forms can also be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M11-1208. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoCardiovascular Mortality in Women With Obstructive Sleep Apnea With or Without Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment Francisco Campos-Rodriguez , Miguel A. Martinez-Garcia , Ines de la Cruz-Moron , Carmen Almeida-Gonzalez , Pablo Catalan-Serra , and Josep M. Montserrat Cardiovascular Mortality in Women With Obstructive Sleep Apnea With or Without Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment Thomas E. Finucane Metrics 5 June 2012Volume 156, Issue 11Page: 838KeywordsBehaviorCardiovascular therapyConflicts of interestContinuous positive airway pressureMortalityObstructive sleep apneaPatientsSleep apneaTreatment guidelines ePublished: 5 June 2012 Issue Published: 5 June 2012 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2012 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...