Heart failure and sleep‐disordered breathing: susceptibility to reduced muscle strength and preclinical congestion (SICA‐HF cohort)

ABSTRACT Aims Increased sympathetic activation in patients with heart failure (HF) and sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB) provokes cardiac decompensation and protein degradation and could lead to muscle wasting and muscle weakness. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in body compo...

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Main Authors: Tarek Bekfani, Christoph Schöbel, Charlotte Pietrock, Miroslava Valentova, Nicole Ebner, Wolfram Döhner, P. Christian Schulze, Stefan D. Anker, Stephan vonHaehling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-10-01
Series:ESC Heart Failure
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.12798