• Pei-Lin Lee, Yen-Wen Wu, Hao-Min Cheng, Cheng-Yi Wang, Li-Pang Chuang, Chou-Han Lin, Liang-Wen Hang, Chih-Chieh Yu, Chung-Lieh Hung, Ching-Lung Liu, Kun-Ta Chou, Mao-Chang Su, Kai-Hung Cheng, Chun-Yao Huang, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, and Kuo-Liang Chiu.
• Center of Sleep Disorder, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• J Formos Med Assoc. 2024 Feb 1; 123 (2): 159178159-178.

AbstractSleep disordered breathing (SDB) is highly prevalent and may be linked to cardiovascular disease in a bidirectional manner. The Taiwan Society of Cardiology, Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine and Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine established a task force of experts to evaluate the evidence regarding the assessment and management of SDB in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), hypertension and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). The GRADE process was used to assess the evidence associated with 15 formulated questions. The task force developed recommendations and determined strength (Strong, Weak) and direction (For, Against) based on the quality of evidence, balance of benefits and harms, patient values and preferences, and resource use. The resulting 11 recommendations are intended to guide clinicians in determining which the specific patient-care strategy should be utilized by clinicians based on the needs of individual patients.Copyright © 2023 Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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