R Doug McEvoy, Nick A Antic, Emma Heeley, Yuanming Luo, Qiong Ou, Xilong Zhang, Olga Mediano, Rui Chen, Luciano F Drager, Zhihong Liu, Guofang Chen, Baoliang Du, Nigel McArdle, Sutapa Mukherjee, Manjari Tripathi, Laurent Billot, Qiang Li, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho, Ferran Barbe, Susan Redline, Jiguang Wang, Hisatomi Arima, Bruce Neal, David P White, Ron R Grunstein, Nanshan Zhong, Craig S Anderson
BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events; whether treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) prevents major cardiovascular events is uncertain. METHODS: After a 1-week run-in period during which the participants used sham CPAP, we randomly assigned 2717 eligible adults between 45 and 75 years of age who had moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea and coronary or cerebrovascular disease to receive CPAP treatment plus usual care (CPAP group) or usual care alone (usual-care group)...
September 8, 2016: New England Journal of Medicine