Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Imaged Carotid Plaque Significantly Associated with Systemic Inflammation

Persons with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at heightened risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke caused by adiposity and intermittent hypoxia which provoke proinflammatory cytokines to induce systemic/vascular inflammation resulting in endothelial dysfunction and development of atherosclerotic plaque. We aim to compare the levels of systemic inflammation between groups of patients having severe OSA with and without carotid artery calcified plaque (CACP+/CACP–) on their panoramic image (PI) as indexed by the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR).

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