Appendix 3.

The incidence of individual cardiac outcomes for patients without and with diagnosis of sleep apnea

Incidence of Selected Cardiac Complications/Outcomes
	No SA diagnosis		SA Diagnosis
Event	N	%	N	%	STD(%)
Conduction disorders	10,433	2.15	1,155	2.61	3.04
Atrial fibrillation and flutter	27,357	5.63	3,854	8.71	11.94
Ventricular fibrillation and flutter	80	0.02	10	0.02	0.50
Cardiac arrest	269	0.06	57	0.13	2.44
Functional disturbances following cardiac surgery	5	0.001	0	0	0.45
Cardiogenic shock	96	0.02	13	0.03	0.58
Cardiac complications not elsewhere classified	3,849	0.79	419	0.95	1.67

(STD = standardized difference)