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ReviewThe Canadian journal of cardiology2015

Should All Congestive Heart Failure Patients Have a Routine Sleep Apnea Screening? Con.

Yanru Li, Lori B Daniels, Patrick J Strollo, Atul Malhotra

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Review in The Canadian journal of cardiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Acute Heart Failure and Central Sleep Apnea.Sleep medicine clinics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yanru LiBeijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing, China.
Lori B DanielsUniversity of California at San Diego, Division of Cardiology, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, La Jolla, California, USA.
Patrick J StrolloUPMC Sleep Medicine Center, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Atul MalhotraUniversity of California at San Diego, Chief of Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA. Electronic address: amalhotra@ucsd.edu.
University of California, San Diego · USCapital Medical University · CNPulmonary and Allergy Associates · US

Funding

Single Motor Unit Genioglossus Recordings to Understand Sleep Apnea PathogenesisR01HL085188 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MALHOTRA, ATUL · 2008 to 2018
$3.5M
Assessment of Upper Airway Mechanics Using Newer EMG TechniquesK24HL093218 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MALHOTRA, ATUL · 2009 to 2013
$857k
Assessment of Upper Airway Mechanics Using Newer Electromyographic TechniquesK24HL132105 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MALHOTRA, ATUL · 2016 to 2020
$611k
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL093218NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL132105NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085188
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is one of the most common comorbidities in people with congestive heart failure (CHF). Although SDB has major cardiometabolic consequences, the attributable risk of SDB in asymptomatic CHF patients remains unclear. Whether early intervention using positive airway pressure would improve the prognosis in CHF patients is uncertain. As yet, there is insufficient evidence that routine polysomnography screening is cost-effective for asymptomatic CHF patients. Careful clinical risk evaluation and thoughtful use of limited-channel home sleep testing should be considered before the application of routine polysomnography in all CHF patients.

Indexed as

ComorbidityGlobal HealthHeart FailureHumansMass ScreeningPolysomnographySleep Apnea Syndromes

Identifiers

PMID26112304
PMCPMC4506310
OpenAlexW2047613601

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