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Trial reportAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2021

Effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Arrhythmia in Atrial Fibrillation and Sleep Apnea: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Gunn Marit Traaen, Lars Aakerøy, Tove-Elizabeth Hunt, Britt Øverland, Christina Bendz, Lars Øivind Sande, Svend Aakhus, Morten Wang Fagerland, Sigurd Steinshamn, Ole-Gunnar Anfinsen and 6 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07087587 (Sleep Apnea Triggers of Atrial Fibrillation), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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.

NCT07087587 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Sleep Apnea Triggers of Atrial Fibrillation: N-of-1 Randomized Control Trial (SPARTA):

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe Cleveland ClinicRan2025 to 2026Enrolled20ConditionsAfib, Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Obstructive, CPAPArmsCPAP
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Sleep, Neural Circulatory Control, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mechanistic Review.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2026
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  9. Modifiable Risk Factors in Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Implications and Pathophysiological Insights.Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc · 2026
    Review
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  17. Increased MyocardialInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Gunn Marit TraaenDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.ORCID 0000-0003-3224-5937
Lars AakerøyDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, and.
Tove-Elizabeth HuntDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Britt ØverlandDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Sleep Unit, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Christina BendzDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Lars Øivind SandeMoloklinikken, Fornebu, Norway; and.
Svend AakhusDepartment of Cardiology, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Morten Wang FagerlandOslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Research Support Services.
Sigurd SteinshamnDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, and.
Ole-Gunnar AnfinsenDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Richard John MasseyDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Kaspar BrochDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Thor UelandResearch Institute of Internal Medicine, Rikshospitalet.
Harriet AkreDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Jan Pål LoennechenDepartment of Cardiology, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Lars GullestadDepartment of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology · NOOslo University Hospital · NORigshospitalet · DKUniversity of Oslo · NOLovisenberg Diakonale Sykehus · NOSmerteklinikken · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Continuous Positive Airway PressureAgedAtrial FibrillationFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNorwayOutcome Assessment, Health CarePrevalenceSleep Apnea, ObstructiveTreatment OutcomeCPAP ventilationobstructive sleep apneaparoxysmal atrial fibrillationsleep-disordered breathing

Identifiers

PMID33938787
OpenAlexW3157443438

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