on July 12, 2004
Circulation. 2004
Published online before print July 12, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000136587.68725.8E
Published online before print July 12, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000136587.68725.8E
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Submitted on February 20, 2004
From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (A.S.G., R.K., D.E.D., J.F.M., N.M.A., P.A.F., V.K.S.), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (S.M.C.), Division of Hypertension (V.K.S.), and Department of Internal Medicine (A.S.G., S.M.C., R.K., J.J.G., D.E.D., J.F.M., N.M.A., P.A.F., V.K.S.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton (G.P.), Hamilton, NJ. * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: somers.virend{at}mayo.edu.
Background--Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) after electrocardioversion. OSA is highly prevalent in patients who are male, obese, and/or hypertensive, but its prevalence in patients with AF is unknown. Methods and Results--We prospectively studied consecutive patients undergoing electrocardioversion for AF (n=151) and consecutive patients without past or current AF referred to a general cardiology practice (n=312). OSA was diagnosed with the Berlin questionnaire, which is validated to identify patients with OSA. We also assessed its accuracy compared with polysomnography in a sample of the study population. Groups were compared with the 2-tailed t, Wilcoxon, and Conclusions--The novel finding of this study is that a strong association exists between OSA and AF, such that OSA is strikingly more prevalent in patients with AF than in high-risk patients with multiple other cardiovascular diseases. The coinciding epidemics of obesity and AF underscore the clinical importance of these results.
Revised on April 13, 2004
Accepted on April 15, 2004
Association of Atrial Fibrillation and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Apoor S. Gami MD,
2 tests. Logistic regression modeled the association of AF and OSA after adjustment for relevant covariates. Patients in each group had similar age, gender, body mass index, and rates of diabetes, hypertension, and congestive heart failure. The questionnaire performed with 0.86 sensitivity, 0.89 specificity, and 0.97 positive predictive value in our sample. The proportion of patients with OSA was significantly higher in the AF group than in the general cardiology group (49% versus 32%, P=0.0004). The adjusted odds ratio for the association between AF and OSA was 2.19 (95% CI 1.40 to 3.42, P=0.0006).
Key words: sleep • fibrillation • risk factors • arrhythmia • hypertension • obesity
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