Negative association between fatigue and signs of sleep apnoea in patients after COVID-19

Markus C Hayden; Gabriele Schwarzl; Matthias Limbach; Sorin Mitrea; Michael Schuler; Dennis Nowak; Konrad Schultz

doi:10.1183/23120541.00289-2022

Negative association between fatigue and signs of sleep apnoea in patients after COVID-19

ERJ Open Res. 2022 Dec 27;8(4):00289-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00289-2022. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Markus C Hayden^{1

2}, Gabriele Schwarzl^{1

2}, Matthias Limbach¹, Sorin Mitrea¹, Michael Schuler³, Dennis Nowak⁴, Konrad Schultz¹

Affiliations

¹ Klinik Bad Reichenhall der Deutschen Rentenversicherung Bayern-Süd, Bad Reichenhall, Germany.
² These authors contributed equally.
³ Department für Angewandte Gesundheitswissenschaften, Hochschule für Gesundheit, Bochum, Germany.
⁴ Institut und Poliklinik für Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.

Abstract

Compared to the general population, there are increased apnoea-hypopnoea indices in patients recovering from #COVID19, yet there is a negative correlation to symptoms of fatigue and no significant correlation to daytime sleepiness https://bit.ly/3pEl9C8.