Sleep-disordered breathing diabetes

Hypertension and obesity are common symptoms of both diabetes and sleep-disordered breathing the presence of these symptoms also represents an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. While a relationship between sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease has been well established, a link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease is less clear. It has been proposed that the cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) common in diabetes may contribute to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (155). 

Not all patients with diabetes also have CAN however, one quarter of diabetes patients with CAN also have OSAS, which has a significantly higher incidence than in diabetic patients without CAN (156). It is this correlation between sleep-disordered breathing and diabetic-associated CAN that suggests a link... 

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