title: Sleep and Heart Failure.
abstract: Sleep deprivation occurs for many reasons but, when chronic in nature, has many consequences for optimal health and performance. Despite its high prevalence, sleep-disordered breathing is underrecognized and undertreated. This is especially true in the setting of heart failure, where sleep-disordered breathing affects more than 50% of patients. Although the optimal strategy to best identify patients is currently unknown, concerted and consistent efforts to support early recognition, diagnosis, and subsequent treatment should be encouraged. Optimization of guideline-directed medical therapy and concurrent treatment of sleep-disordered breathing are necessary to improve outcomes in this complex high-risk population.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, 1250 E Marshal Street, Richmond, VA 23219, USA.
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing, 845 S Damien Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Electronic address: rjtrupp@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Robin J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Trupp
mesh_terms: D045422:Continuous Positive Airway Pressure / Q000379:methods; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000379:methods; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: Central sleep apnea; Heart failure; Noninvasive ventilator support; Obstructive sleep apnea; Sleep-disordered breathing