Correlation among obstructive sleep apnea syndrome,coronary atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease

摘要

＜正＞ Epidemiologic investigations have shown that themorbidity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome（OSAS）among adults is 2%-4%,among the populationaged 30 years and over is 4.63%,and among patients withhypertension or coronary atherosclerostic disease （CAD）is as high as 30%-50%.Many studies have indicatedthat OSAS may be closely associated with thedevelopment of CAD since increased incidence andmortality of CAD were found in OSAS patients.However,