Catalysts that drive the need for emergency room visits, hospitalizations and physician specialist care are known as comorbidities. Recent studies demonstrate that OSA is associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and hypertension – most with astonishing numbers of overlap with associated medical conditions.
Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA continues to gain attention in large part due to the contributing factors related to comorbidities.
Sleep Apnea prevalence in CVD patients
The graph above demonstates the incident rates of having sleep apnea if you have one of the listed diagnoses. For example, there is an 80% chance of having sleep apnea if you have been diagnosed with drug resistant hypertension, and a 50% chance of having sleep apnea if you have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.