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Obstructive sleep apnea severity and subsequent risk for cancer incidence.

ABSTRACT: In vitro and animal models suggest that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) increases cancer risk. However, the impact of OSA severity on cancer risk is poorly understood. We conducted a case-cohort study (a variant of the case-control study design), nested in a cohort of patients with a clinical diagnosis of OSA. OSA patients diagnosed between 2005 and 2013 were linked to a population-based cancer registry to identify cancers diagnosed subsequent to OSA between 2005 and 2015. Medical records were reviewed for a representative sample of 1162 OSA patients from this cohort (including 24 with subsequent cancer), and for an additional 304 OSA patients diagnosed with cancer; information regarding OSA severity indicators, including apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was abstracted from these records. Adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression were used to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations of OSA severity indicators on cancer incidence. Compared with individuals in the lowest AHI category (5-14.9), indicating mild OSA, the adjusted HR (95% CI) for cancer incidence associated with having moderate (15-29.9) or severe (30+) OSA were 0.72 (0.40-1.29) and 0.87 (0.52-1.45) respectively. Associations with other severity indicators were not significantly associated with cancer. However, the proportion of patients with severe OSA (AHI ?30) was consistently higher across numerous cancer sites relative to the subcohort, suggesting increased cancer risk relative to patients with less severe OSA. The absence of significant associations with OSA severity measures suggest that the underlying mechanisms deserve further investigation.

SUBMITTER: Sillah A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525275 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Obstructive sleep apnea severity and subsequent risk for cancer incidence.

Sillah Arthur A Watson Nathaniel F NF Gozal David D Phipps Amanda I AI

Preventive medicine reports 20190502

In vitro and animal models suggest that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) increases cancer risk. However, the impact of OSA severity on cancer risk is poorly understood. We conducted a case-cohort study (a variant of the case-control study design), nested in a cohort of patients with a clinical diagnosis of OSA. OSA patients diagnosed between 2005 and 2013 were linked to a population-based cancer registry to identify cancers diagnosed subsequent to OSA between 2005 and 2015. Medical records were rev ...[more]

PMID: 31193286

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Project description:Rationale: Symptom subtypes have been described in clinical and population samples of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It is unclear whether these subtypes have different cardiovascular consequences.Objectives: To characterize OSA symptom subtypes and assess their association with prevalent and incident cardiovascular disease in the Sleep Heart Health Study.Methods: Data from 1,207 patients with OSA (apnea-hypopnea index ≥ 15 events/h) were used to evaluate the existence of symptom subtypes using latent class analysis. Associations between subtypes and prevalence of overall cardiovascular disease and its components (coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke) were assessed using logistic regression. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate whether subtypes were associated with incident events, including cardiovascular mortality.Measurements and Main Results: Four symptom subtypes were identified (disturbed sleep [12.2%], minimally symptomatic [32.6%], excessively sleepy [16.7%], and moderately sleepy [38.5%]), similar to prior studies. In adjusted models, although no significant associations with prevalent cardiovascular disease were found, the excessively sleepy subtype was associated with more than threefold increased risk of prevalent heart failure compared with each of the other subtypes. Symptom subtype was also associated with incident cardiovascular disease (P < 0.001), coronary heart disease (P = 0.015), and heart failure (P = 0.018), with the excessively sleepy again demonstrating increased risk (hazard ratios, 1.7-2.4) compared with other subtypes. When compared with individuals without OSA (apnea-hypopnea index < 5), significantly increased risk for prevalent and incident cardiovascular events was observed mostly for patients in the excessively sleepy subtype.Conclusions: OSA symptom subtypes are reproducible and associated with cardiovascular risk, providing important evidence of their clinical relevance.

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Obstructive sleep apnea severity and subsequent risk for cancer incidence.

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Obstructive sleep apnea severity and subsequent risk for cancer incidence.

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