[The importance of treatment for breathing disorders during sleep in stroke patients].

In the following exposure, we revised the possibility that the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing with continuous nasal positive airway pressure could be potentially beneficial in three aspects: to control the sleep-disordered breathing as a risk factor for stroke, acting, in this sense, as primary prophylaxis; improving the prognosis of stroke, through conditioning a better functional recuperation or a lower mortality and finally through the control of recurrences, acting, in this sense, as secondary prophylaxis.