A recent publication in the American Heart Association Journal Stroke delineates the clinical characteristics and laboratory markers of inflammation and coagulability associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a severity during the acute post-stroke period. The research outlines the biomarkers related to the screening of OSA as a post-stroke event. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts.
Obstructive sleep apnea, the more common form that occurs when throat muscles relax. Sleep-disordered breathing is common among patients with stroke resulting in 4- to 6-fold higher prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The study Patients admitted to the Neurology Department with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated during the first 48 hours of symptom onset using Watch peripheral arterial tonometry, a wrist-worn ambulatory sleep…
