04/09/2024
Helping care for people with Sleep Apnea is my passion. Happy to see the word is finally getting out that MAD -Mandibular Advancement Devices - are proving to be effective therapy for patients and in this study were superior at lowering blood pressure in the Apneic patient.
“Looking at the totality of evidence available in the literature, it is still reasonable to say that CPAP is the first-line treatment until we have more data on the MAD. However, for patients who truly cannot tolerate or accept using a CPAP, we should be more open minded in looking for an alternative therapy such as a MAD, which based on our study, numerically had a better blood pressure reduction in patients compared with a CPAP."
Ronald Lee Chi-Hang, MD, professor of medicine at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, senior consultant in the department of cardiology at National University Heart Centre, Singapore, and one of the study authors
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