Simple obstructive sleep apnea patients without hypertension or diabetes accelerate kidney dysfunction: a population follow-up cohort study from Taiwan

• Published in: Sleep & breathing Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 85 - 91
• Main Authors: Lin, Yu-Sheng, Liu, Pi-Hua, Lin, Shi-Wei, Chuang, Li-Pang, Ho, Wan-Jing, Chou, Yu-Ting, Juan, Kuo-Chang, Lo, Min-Tzu, Chu, Pao-Hsien, Chen, Ning-Hung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-03-2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acute Kidney Injury - epidemiology; Acute Kidney Injury - physiopathology; Adult; Aged; Cohort Studies; Dentistry; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus - diagnosis; Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology; Diabetes Mellitus - physiopathology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension - diagnosis; Hypertension - epidemiology; Hypertension - physiopathology; Incidence; Internal Medicine; Kidney diseases; Kidney Failure, Chronic - epidemiology; Kidney Failure, Chronic - physiopathology; Kidney Function Tests; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neurology; Otorhinolaryngology; Pediatrics; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sleep apnea; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - diagnosis; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - epidemiology; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - physiopathology; Sleep Breathing Physiology and Disorders • Original; Sleep Breathing Physiology and Disorders • Original Article; Statistics as Topic; Taiwan; Young Adult; Taiwan; Hypertension; Kidney dysfunction; Diabetes; Obstructive sleep apnea
• ISSN: 1520-9512; 1522-1709
• DOI: 10.1007/s11325-016-1376-2

Backgrounds
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common in patients on hemodialysis, but its correlation with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not clear. We aimed to clarify the relationship between OSA without hypertension or diabetes and incidence of CKD in Taiwan.
Methods
This population-based cohort study consisted of patients with newly diagnosed OSA between 2000 and 2009. The comparison cohort was matched for age, sex, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. All subjects previously diagnosed with acute or chronic kidney disease were excluded. The primary end point was newly diagnosed CKD.
Results
We identified 6866 subjects with OSA during the 10-year study period. The median duration until development of CKD in the OSA cohort was 3.2 years, 2.5 months earlier than that in the non-OSA cohort. After exclusion of hypertension and diabetes, 4319 OSA patients was identified and the hazard ratio (HR) of CKD with OSA was 1.37 (95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.05–1.77;
p
 = 0.019). In the subgroup analysis, an increased incidence of CKD in OSA was observed in women (HR, 1.41; 95 % CI, 1.12–1.78;
p
 = 0.0036).
Conclusions
This longitudinal population-based cohort study provides evidence that patients with OSA even without diabetes or hypertension are at higher risk of developing CKD over the next 3 years and nearly 2.5 months earlier than the non-OSA cohort, particularly women.