Your Sleep Apnea Patient Just Had a Heart Attack. You…

Your Sleep Apnea Patient Just Had a Heart Attack. You treated the apnea. You prescribed CPAP. You monitored their oxygen. But something else was quietly building plaque in their arteries. And it was coming from their gut. New research presented at ASM Microbe 2026 just uncovered a hidden pathway that may explain why sleep apnea patients face such dramatically higher cardiovascular risk and it has nothing to do with oxygen levels directly. Gut microbes and the compounds they produce may play a surprising role in driving cardiovascular complications linked to sleep apnea. Here is how it wor