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Trial reportSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2014

Obstructive sleep apnea: no independent association to troponins.

Trygve Sørdahl Hall, Tobias Herrscher, Petr Jarolim, Morten W Fagerland, Torstein Jensen, Jonas Hallén, Stefan Agewall, Dan Atar

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Trial report in Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Untreated Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated With Myocardial Injury Independent of Blood Pressure Control in Hypertension.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2018
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  2. Biomarkers in Sleep Apnea and Heart Failure.Current heart failure reports · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Trygve Sørdahl HallDepartment of Cardiology, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, 0440, Oslo, Norway, tshall@online.no.
Tobias Herrscher
Petr Jarolim
Morten W Fagerland
Torstein Jensen
Jonas Hallén
Stefan Agewall
Dan Atar
University of Oslo · NOOslo University Hospital · NOBoehringer Ingelheim (Norway) · NOHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCardiac troponins (cTn) are to date the most sensitive and specific biochemical markers of myocardial injury. Abnormal breathing patterns in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may cause myocardial cell stress detectable by novel cTn assays. The objectives of this study were to investigate whether a new single-molecule cTnI (S-cTnI) assay and a commercially available high-sensitivity cTnT (hs-cTnT) assay would detect myocyte injury in individuals evaluated for possible OSA, and to explore their relation to variables of disordered breathing during sleep.

methodsConsecutive individuals referred to Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital's sleep laboratory between 1 October 2009 and 1 March 2010 were included. We measured cTn in specimens collected the morning after sleep and studied these in relation to variables recorded during polygraphy or polysomnography.

resultsAll 222 (100 %) individuals had measurable cTn levels using either assay. Stratified into categories according to the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), patients with OSA (AHI ≥5) had a different distribution of S-cTnI (P = 0.036) and hs-cTnT (P = 0.002) compared to those without (AHI <5). The median (quartiles 1-3) were 3.0 (1.9-6.0) versus 2.3 (1.6-3.8) ng/l for S-cTnI, and 7.0 (5.5-8.7) versus 6.2 (4.9-7.2) ng/l for hs-cTnT. However, in multiple median regression analyses adjusted for conventional predictors, neither S-cTnI (P = 0.57) nor hs-cTnT (P = 0.80) were significantly associated with AHI.

conclusionsThis study reveals no association independent of conventional predictors between OSA and myocardial cell injury measured by S-cTnI and hs-cTnT assays. Our findings support a search for novel biomarkers for prognostication of OSA.

Indexed as

AdultFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHospitalizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedMonitoring, AmbulatoryMyocardial InfarctionMyocardial IschemiaOxygenPolysomnographyRisk AssessmentSleep Apnea, ObstructiveStatistics as TopicTroponin IGlycated Hemoglobinhemoglobin A1c protein, humanOxygenTroponin I

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PMID24043484
OpenAlexW2016238687

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