Cardiac arrhythmias are often accompanied by sleep-disordered breathing

Breathing during sleep is often impaired in patients with atrial fibrillation. In the current edition of Deutsches Aerzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106 (10): 164-70), Thomas Bitter and his coauthors from the Ruhr University in Bochum investigate how often sleep-disordered breathing occurs in this form of cardiac arrhythmia and what the different types are...

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