Central sleep apnea in atrial fibrillation: Risk factor or marker of untreated underlying disease?

Dominik Linz, Jeroen Hendriks

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Article in International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed

1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

Recent highlights on the prevalence and role of sleep disordered breathing in cardiovascular diseases from theInternational journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2023
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Improvement in sleep apnea immediately after successful premature ventricular complex suppression following ablation.HeartRhythm case reports · 2023
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Vagal milieu or electrophysiologic substrate? The link between atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnea.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2022
Review
Research Opportunities in Autonomic Neural Mechanisms of Cardiopulmonary Regulation: A Report From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director Workshop.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2022
Review
Personalized management of sleep apnea in patients with atrial fibrillation: An interdisciplinary and translational challenge.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2021
Article
Sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation: Update 2020.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2020
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Central sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation: A review on pathophysiological mechanisms and therapeutic implications.2020

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Dominik LinzCentre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

Jeroen HendriksCentre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

Royal Adelaide Hospital · AUUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID33104086

DOI10.1016/j.ijcha.2020.100650

PMCPMC7573638

OpenAlexW3092487103

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