• Anil Anandam, Monali Patil, Morohunfolu Akinnusi, Philippe Jaoude, and Ali A El-Solh.
• Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Western New York Respiratory Research Center, Buffalo, New York, USA; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
• Respirology. 2013 Nov 1;18(8):1184-90.

Background And ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to evaluate the long-term cardiovascular mortality in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) treated with either continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or mandibular advancing device (MAD).MethodsA non-concurrent cohort study of 570 subjects with severe OSA (apnoea/hypopnoea index (AHI) ≥ 30/h) and a control group of 269 subjects (AHI < 5/h) were followed up for a median of 79 months (interquartile range 76-88 months). All patients received CPAP initially. MAD was offered for those who were non-adherent to CPAP. The endpoint was cardiovascular death.ResultsTwo hundred and eight control subjects, 177 patients treated with CPAP, 72 with MAD and 212 who declined treatment were analysed. Forty-two patients had a fatal cardiovascular event during the course of the study. The non-apnoeic group had the lowest cardiovascular death rate (0.28 per 100 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.08-0.71)) followed by the CPAP-treated (0.56 per 100 person-years (95% CI: 0.20-1.23)) and the MAD-treated OSA group (0.61 per 100 person-years (95% CI: 0.13-1.78)), with the highest cardiovascular mortality rate observed in the untreated OSA group (2.1 per 100 person-years (95% CI: 1.37-2.92)). Although residual AHI for MAD-treated patients was significantly higher than CPAP-treated patients (16.3 ± 5.1/h vs. 4.5 ± 2.3/h; P < 0.001), there was no difference in cardiovascular death rate between the two groups (hazard ratio 1.08 (95% CI: 0.55-1.74); P = 0.71).ConclusionsBoth CPAP and MAD may be equally effective therapy in reducing the risk of fatal cardiovascular events in patients with severe OSA.© 2013 The Authors. Respirology © 2013 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology.

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