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Clinical Phenotypes and Comorbidity in European Sleep Apnoea Patients
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BACKGROUND: Clinical presentation phenotypes of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and their association with comorbidity as well as impact on adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment have not been established. METHODS: A prospective follow-up cohort of adult patients with OSA (apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) of ≥5/h) from 17 European countries and Israel (n = 6,555) was divided into four clinical presentation phenotypes based on daytime symptoms labelled as excessive daytime sleepiness ("EDS") and nocturnal sleep problems other than OSA (labelled as "insomnia"): 1) EDS (daytime+/nighttime-), 2) EDS/insomnia (daytime+/nighttime+), 3) non-EDS/non-insomnia (daytime-/nighttime-), 4) and insomnia (daytime-/nighttime+) phenotype. RESULTS: The EDS phenotype comprised 20.7%, the non-EDS/non-insomnia type 25.8%, the EDS/insomnia type 23.7%, and the insomnia phenotype 29.8% of the entire cohort. Thus, clinical presentation phenotypes with insomnia symptoms were dominant with 53.5%, but only 5.6% had physician diagnosed insomnia. Cardiovascular comorbidity was less prevalent in the EDS and most common in the insomnia phenotype (48.9% vs. 56.8%, p<0.001) despite more severe OSA in the EDS group (AHI 35.0±25.5/h vs. 27.9±22.5/h, p<0.001, respectively). Psychiatric comorbidity was associated with insomnia like OSA phenotypes independent of age, gender and body mass index (HR 1.5 (1.188-1.905), p<0.001). The EDS phenotype tended to associate with higher CPAP usage (22.7 min/d, p = 0.069) when controlled for age, gender, BMI and sleep apnoea severity. CONCLUSIONS: Phenotypes with insomnia symptoms comprised more than half of OSA patients and were more frequently linked with comorbidity than those with EDS, despite less severe OSA. CPAP usage was slightly higher in phenotypes with EDS.
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- Saaresranta, T., Hedner, J., Bonsignore, M. R., Riha, R. L., McNicholas, W. T., Penzel, T., Anttalainen, U., Kvamme, J. A., Pretl, M., Sliwinski, P., Verbraecken, J., Grote, L., & ESADA Study Group
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- University of Turku (FI)
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SE)
- Istituto di Biomedicina e di Immunologia Molecolare Alberto Monroy (IT)
- Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (GB)
- University College Dublin (IE)
- International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital Brno (CZ)
- Helse Førde (NO)
- Charles University (CZ)
- University of Antwerp (BE)
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- Turun Yliopisto
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- Universiteit Antwerpen
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- Turun Yliopistollinen Keskussairaala
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Keywords
- obstructive sleep apnea, clinical phenotype, comorbidities, excessive daytime sleepiness, insomnia, cardiovascular comorbidity, psychiatric comorbidity, CPAP adherence, apnea-hypopnea index, European patients
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Comorbidity, Prevalence, White People, Young Adult
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