Clinical characteristics and mortality risk in relation to obstructive and central sleep apnoea in community-dwelling elderlyn individuals: a 7-year follow-up

摘要

Background: little is known about demographic and clinical characteristics associated with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) or central sleep apnoea (CSA) in community-dwelling elderly. We also examined these (OSA and CSA) associations to all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality.