even after adjusting for common covariates. Along with the findings that severe OSA Ois not independently associated with recurrent ischemic stroke
and the CRP level of the severe OSA group is significantly lower than that of the non-severe OSA group, the results suggest that a preferentially adaptive antioxidative response to hypoxia emerges and the role of OSA, with respect to inflammatory reaction, is attenuated in ischemic stroke patients with OSA.