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| Author, year | Design | Study population | Diagnostic method | of patients | Cardiac monitoring | Results |
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| Guilleminault et al., 1983 [46] | Uncontrolled | Severe OSA | PSG | 400 | 24 h holter ECG | Nocturnal paroxysms of AF in ≈3% of OSA patients
Sinus arrest and AV block in 10% and 7% of OSA patients |
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| Gami et al., 2007 [47] | Observational retrospective | Adults underwent
a 1st PSG study.
No AF at baseline | PSG | 3542 | N/A. Medical
index diagnostic codes for AF | Obesity and OSA were independent risk factors for incident AF |
|
| Mooe et al., 1996 [49] | Observational prospective | Patients underwent
CABG surgery | PSG | 121 | Prospective monitoring until discharge | AHI ≥ 5 was associated with significant higher risk of postsurgical AF |
|
| Ng et al., 2011 [50] | Meta-analysis (observational studies) | Patients
underwent PVI | PSG/Berlin
questionnaire | 3995 | 24/48 h holter ECG
Event monitor/recorder
Telephone follow-up
ECG | OSA led to greater AF recurrence rates after PVI |
|
| Simantirakis et al., 2004 [40] | Observational prospective | Moderate-severe
OSA | PSG | 23 | Implantable loop
recorder | Cardiac pauses >3 s and bradycardic
episodes <40 bpm in 47% of patients |
|
|
Becker, 1998 [6] | Observational prospective | Unselected OSA | PSG | 239 | 24 h holter ECG | 2nd- and 3rd-degree AV block and/or sinus arrest in ≈7.5% of OSA patients |
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Hoffstein and Mateika, 1994 [56] | Observational prospective | Patients underwent PSG study | PSG | 458 | Single lead ECG
during PSG | 58% prevalence of arrhythmias in OSA patients |
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