title: Systemic hypertension in sleep apnea syndrome. Relationship with sleep architecture and breathing abnormalities.
abstract: To examine the possible relationship between systemic HT and SAS we compared 21 hypertensive (HT+) and 29 normotensive (HT-) patients for morphologic characteristics, sleep disturbances and respiratory events monitored during a full night polysomnography. There was no significant difference between HT+ and HT- patients with respect to age, weight, BMI, sleep stage distribution and disorganization, apnea-hypopnea index (number of episodes per hour of sleep) and duration (minutes per hour of sleep) nor O2 saturation indices: mean nocturnal and minimum O2 saturation. We conclude therefore that HT in SAS patients is not directly related to morphologic characteristics, sleep disturbances and breathing abnormalities.
authors: Laboratoire d'Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Escourrou
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Jirani
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Nedelcoux
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Duroux
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Gaultier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001049:Apnea / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D012119:Respiration / Q000502:physiology*; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen