Does Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment Reduce Cardiovascular Risk?: It Is Far Too Soon to Say.

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Peer-Driven Intervention for Care Coordination and Adherence Promotion for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Randomized, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
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2. Optimal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Reduces Daytime Resting Heart Rate in Prediabetes: A Randomized Controlled Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020
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3. Pro: comparing adherent to non-adherent patients can provide useful estimates of the effect of continuous positive airway pressure on cardiovascular outcomes.Sleep · 2024
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4. Electronic health record-derived outcomes in obstructive sleep apnea managed with positive airway pressure tracking systems.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022
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5. Randomized clinical trials of cardiovascular disease in obstructive sleep apnea: understanding and overcoming bias.Sleep · 2021
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6. Association of Positive Airway Pressure Prescription With Mortality in Patients With Obesity and Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Sleep Heart Health Study.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2019
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7. PAP and Cardiovascular Events in Adults With Sleep Apnea: Is PAP Useful?Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Association of Positive Airway Pressure With Cardiovascular Events and Death in Adults With Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.2017

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