1. Specific recommendations for prevention strategies often depend on the ischemic
stroke/transient ischemic attack subtype. Therefore, new in this guideline is a section …

Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is commonly caused by vascular
injuries in cerebral large and small vessels and is a key driver of age-related cognitive …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is thought to affect almost 1 billion people worldwide. OSA
has well established cardiovascular and neurocognitive sequelae, although the optimal …

Aims Apnoea–hypopnoea index (AHI), the universal clinical metric of sleep apnoea severity,
poorly predicts the adverse outcomes of sleep apnoea, potentially because the AHI, a …

Abstract Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of COPD 2018 is a
consensus report published periodically since 2001 by an international panel of health …

Good sleep is considered to be the cornerstone for maintaining both physical and mental
health. However, nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from various sleep disorders. To …

Background Effects of extreme sleep duration on risk of mortality and cardiovascular
outcomes remain controversial. We aimed to quantify the dose‐response relationships of …

Abstract Purpose of Review: Death from stroke has decreased over the past decade, with
stroke now the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. In addition, the incidence of …

Emerging research highlights the complex interrelationships between sleep-disordered
breathing and cardiovascular disease, presenting clinical and research opportunities as well …

Background Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with major morbidity and mortality.
However, its prevalence has mainly been selectively studied in populations at risk for sleep …