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In sleep-related breathing disorders, apnea, hypopnea and snoring can be associated with obstruction of extrathoracic airways. Snoring can be observed intermittently during the apnea-terminating hyperventilation or continuously without apnea. An influence on blood pressure is known to occur in both patterns. Recent epidemiologic studies have shown a clear interrelation between sleep apnea and arterial hypertension. Several reports by different authors from various countries have shown that more than 50% of patients with severe sleep apnea have hypertension and up to 50% of males with arterial hypertension show an increased apnea index [3, 6, 8, 18]. In a field study of 135 male employees of an electric company an apnea index of more than 10 phases per hour of sleep was found in 8 of 35 hypertensives; arterial hypertension was found in 8 of 10 subjects with severe sleep apnea [12].
Supported in part by a grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft MA1154/1–1.
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Mayer, J., Weichler, U., Herres-Mayer, B., Moser, R., Schneider, H., Peter, J.H. (1991). Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders and Arterial Hypertension. In: Peter, J.H., Penzel, T., Podszus, T., von Wichert, P. (eds) Sleep and Health Risk. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76034-1_37
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