Sleep Apnea Treatment And Cardiovascular Risk

Cardiovascular disease. Undoubtedly, rate of cardiovascular events goes up in sleep apnea. Study done Mayo Clinic, where they looked at Medicare database, they found that people with comorbidity of both sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease, if they treated the sleep apnea, the annual cost of the cardiovascular disease declined and the number of hospitalizations and events declined. There's numerous studies showing that there's a positive effect of treating sleep apnea. Now, there's not a good study to say that if you treat your sleep apnea, you have the same outcome. If somebody doesn't have sleep apnea in the first place, the studies would suggest that, but that's not a foregone conclusion. So there's some people that would dispute treating sleep apnea at all. But this is generally regarded as a standard care if you have sleep apnea, you should treat it or you suffer ill consequences, particularly more cardiovascular mortality.