Female Patients With Sleep-Disordered Breathing Display More Frequently Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Female Patients With Sleep-Disordered Breathing Display More Frequently Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Objective: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a widespread disease that is often associated with heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). HFpEF is more frequent in women than in men, but detailed pathomechanisms remain unclear. We investigated HFpEF in women and men in a high-ri...

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Main Authors: Simon Lebek, Philipp Hegner, Maria Tafelmeier, Leopold Rupprecht, Christof Schmid, Lars Siegfried Maier, Michael Arzt, Stefan Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
sleep-disordered breathing
sex
gender
intermittent hypoxia
HFpEF
ACE2
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.675987/full

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