Sleep-disordered breathing is an independent risk factor of aborted sudden cardiac arrest in patients with coronary artery spasm

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2204-2210

  Sakakibara, Mamoru ^a   Yamada, Shiro ^a   Kamiya, Kiwamu ^a   Yokota, Takashi ^c   Oba, Koji ^b   Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous function; Coronary artery spasm; Fatal arrhythmia; Sleep disordered breathing; Sudden cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROVOCATION TEST; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 84865554511     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0210     Document Type: Article

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