Sleep apnea in carotid stenosis

Abstract

Sleep apnea is associated with advanced atherosclerosis. This study was focused on sleep breathing in patients with hemodynamically significant carotid stenosis.

Keywords

• Atherosclerosis
• carotid artery stenosis
• endarterectomy
• obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
• sleep polygraphy
• intima-media thickness
• ischemic-stroke
• atherosclerosis
• association
• endarterectomy
• disease
• severity
• markers
• risk