Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment neither reduces pain intensity nor consumption of opioids in veterans with chronic pain who have coexisting obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) sleep center study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (2016;12:1105-1111).
The retrospective, case-control study compared 113 patients with OSA who had a morphine equivalent daily dose of 61.6 mg for nonmalignant pain with a control group of 113 individuals with