Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Cardioembolic Stroke Risk
It has been found that cardioembolic stroke is more common in obstructive sleep apnoea patients. This is according to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester who undertook a retrospective study on records of 53 patients who had a polysomnography between 2000 and 2011.
Obstructive sleep apnoea was found to increase the risk of ischemic stroke by three times in men. Melissa C. Lipford, a neurologist at the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota says that OSA leads to structural and physiologic changes in the heart that can predispose patients to cardioembolic stroke via mechanisms other than atrial fibrillation.
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