Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea common, but undiagnosed, among pacemaker patients
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, April 1st, 2007
Moreover, more than 21 percent of the patients had severe sleep apnea, characterized by 30 or more periods of interrupted breathing each hour during sleep, said Patrick Lévy, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and a professor physiology at Grenoble University in Grenoble, France.
“Because of the excessive prevalence of undiagnosed sleep apnea we found, it could be recommended that all patients referred for a pacemaker should first be...
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