Journal article
Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on endothelin-1 and blood pressure
Journal of hypertension, Vol.17(1), pp.61-66
01/1999
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199917010-00010
PMID: 10100095
Abstract
OBJECTIVETo evaluate blood pressure and humoral vasoconstrictor responses to recurrent episodes of obstructive sleep apnea and the effects of therapy by means of continuous positive airway pressure.
PATIENTS AND METHODSWe prospectively evaluated overnight changes in hemodynamics, oxygen saturation, the apnea–hypopnea index, circulating endothelin-1, norepinephrine and plasma renin activity in 22 patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea before and after successful therapy using continuous positive airway pressure therapy (three measurements). Measurements of endothelin-1 and blood pressure were also obtained on three occasions, at similar times, in 12 healthy control subjects without sleep disturbances.
RESULTSMean arterial pressure and endothelin-1 concentrations increased significantly after 4 h of untreated obstructive sleep apnea, and decreased after 5 h of continuous positive airway pressure. Changes in endothelin-1 levels were correlated with changes in mean arterial pressure (r = 0.44, P < 0.02) and with changes in oxygen saturation (r = 0.37, P < 0.05). Norepinephrine levels and plasma renin activity did not change significantly in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, and were not correlated with changes in blood pressure or oxygen saturation. In controls, blood pressure measurements at similar times during the night showed changes directionally opposite to that seen in obstructive sleep apnea, while endothelin-1 levels remained unchanged.
CONCLUSIONSSleep apnea elicits increases in blood pressure and endothelin-1, with reductions in both after treatment. Vasoconstrictor and mitogenic effects of endothelin-1 may be implicated in increased cardiovascular risk in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on endothelin-1 and blood pressure
- Creators
- Bradley Phillips - 1Division of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, USA 2Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA 3Sleep Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USAKrzysztof NarkiewiczCatherine PesekWilliam HaynesMark DykenVirend Somers
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of hypertension, Vol.17(1), pp.61-66
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc
- DOI
- 10.1097/00004872-199917010-00010
- PMID
- 10100095
- ISSN
- 0263-6352
- eISSN
- 1473-5598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/1999
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984021000102771
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