# Apnea del sueño: la epidemia oculta

70–80 % sin diagnosticar. 90–95 % entre las mujeres. Unos mil millones de personas.



## Claves

- Ronquidos, pausas observadas, sueño no reparador, somnolencia → hazte el cribado.

- Delgado, en forma, mujer: sigue siendo posible.

- Pide un diagnóstico tipificado, no una CPAP genérica.



## Fuentes

- Estimation of the clinically diagnosed proportion of sleep apnea syndrome in middle-aged men and women (Young T, Evans L, Finn L, Palta M, 1997)

- Estimation of the global prevalence and burden of obstructive sleep apnoea: a literature-based analysis (Benjafield AV, Ayas NT, Eastwood PR, et al., 2019)

- Increased prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in adults (Peppard PE, Young T, Barnet JH, Palta M, Hagen EW, Hla KM, 2013)

- Relationship between overnight rostral fluid shift and obstructive sleep apnea in nonobese men (Redolfi S, Yumino D, Ruttanaumpawan P, et al., 2009)

- Defining phenotypic causes of obstructive sleep apnea. Identification of novel therapeutic targets (Eckert DJ, White DP, Jordan AS, Malhotra A, Wellman A, 2013)

- Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in men with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea with or without treatment with continuous positive airway pressure: an observational study (Marin JM, Carrizo SJ, Vicente E, Agusti AG, 2005)

- STOP questionnaire: a tool to screen patients for obstructive sleep apnea (Chung F, Yegneswaran B, Liao P, et al., 2008)

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