Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and ophthalmologic diseases, specifically glaucoma, nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), retinal vein occlusion (RVO), central serous chorioretinopathy (CSR), and floppy eyelid syndrome (FES), by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies.
Methods
PubMed, Embase, and Scopus databases were searched for observational studies on OSA and its association with select ophthalmologic diseases. Data was pooled for random-effects modeling. The association between OSA and ophthalmologic diseases was summarized using an estimated pooled odds ratio with a 95 % confidence interval.
Results
Relative to non-OSA subjects, OSA subjects have increased odds of diagnosis with glaucoma (pooled odds ratio (OR) = 1.242; P < 0.001) and floppy eyelids syndrome (pooled OR = 4.157; P < 0.001). In reverse, the overall pooled OR for OSA was 1.746 (P = 0.002) in the glaucoma group, 3.126 (P = 0.000) in the NAION group, and 2.019 (P = 0.028) in the CSR group. For RVO, one study with 5965 OSA patients and 29,669 controls demonstrated a 1.94-fold odds increase in OSA patients.
Conclusions
Our results suggest significant associations between OSA and glaucoma, NAION, CSR, and FES. Screening for OSA should be considered in patients with glaucoma, NAION, CSR, or FES.
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This study was led by Dr. Leh-Kiong Huon while she was a visiting scholar in Sleep Surgery and Sleep Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. No funding was received for this research. All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speaker’s bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements,) or non-financial interest (personal or professional relationships, affiliations, and knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. As this is a bibliographic research, it was considered “exempt” from IRB approval.
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This meta-analysis emphasize the association of sleep disordered breathing and ophthalmologic disorders caused or propagated by variable pathologic mechanism; therefore, clinicians should consider this evidence a reason to pay more attention in their clinical practices of ophthalmology and consider screening patients for sleep disorders or referring patients to sleep disorders evaluation when clinically appropriate.
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Huon, LK., Liu, S.YC., Camacho, M. et al. The association between ophthalmologic diseases and obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep Breath 20, 1145–1154 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-016-1358-4
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