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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Opioid Users With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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2020 Feb 24


J Clin Sleep Med


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32105208?dopt=Abstract

Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Opioid Users With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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Prevalence of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Opioid Users With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Mubashir T, Nagappa M, Esfahanian N, Botros J, Arif AA, Suen C, Wong J, Ryan CM, Chung F
J Clin Sleep Med. 2020 Feb 24.
PMID: 32105208.

Abstract

Opioids have been reported to increase the risk for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in chronic non-cancer pain patients on opioid therapy. This study aims to determine the pooled prevalence of SDB in opioid users with chronic pain and comparing it to patients with "Pain:No-opioids" and "No-pain:No-opioids".
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