• Miguel A Martínez-García, Francisco Campos-Rodriguez, Joaquín Durán-Cantolla, Mónica de la Peña, María J Masdeu, Mónica González, Félix Del Campo, Pablo Catalán Serra, Irene Valero-Sánchez, M J Selma Ferrer, José M Marín, Ferrán Barbé, M Martínez, Ramón Farré, José M Montserrat, and Spanish Sleep Network.
• Respiratory Department, La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Bunyola, Spain. Electronic address: mianmartinezgarcia@gmail.com.
• Sleep Med. 2014 Jul 1;15(7):742-8.

ObjectiveThe association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cancer mortality has scarcely been studied. The objective of this study was to investigate whether OSA is associated with increased cancer mortality in a large cohort of patients with OSA suspicion.MethodsThis was a multicenter study in consecutive patients investigated for suspected OSA. OSA severity was measured by the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and the hypoxemia index (% night-time spent with oxygen saturation <90%, TSat90). The association between OSA severity and cancer mortality was assessed using Cox's proportional regression analyses after adjusting for relevant confounders.ResultsIn all, 5427 patients with median follow-up of 4.5 years were included. Of these, 527 (9.7%) were diagnosed with cancer. Log-transformed TSat90 was independently associated with increased cancer mortality in the entire cohort (hazard ratio [HR], 1.21; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03-1.42), as well as in the group of patients with cancer (HR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.02-1.41). The closest association was shown in patients <65years in both the AHI (continuous log-transformed AHI: HR, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.1-3.2; upper vs lower AHI tertile: HR, 3.98; 95% CI, 1.14-3.64) and the TSat90 (continuous log-transformed TSat90: HR, 1.73; 95% CI, 1.23-2.4; upper vs. lower TSat90 tertile: HR, 14.4; 95% CI, 1.85-111.6).ConclusionsOSA severity was associated with increased cancer mortality, particularly in patients aged <65 years.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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