Milind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Milind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC, is Vice Chair of the Heart Vascular Thoracic Institute and Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at the Cleveland Clinic.

Articles by Milind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Desai: Screen HCM Patients for Sleep Apnea Aggressively

ByMilind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC,Luke Halpern, Associate Editor

September 8th 2026

The Cleveland Clinic team's real-world findings presented at ESC 2026 are hypothesis-generating and need prospective confirmation but point to a low threshold for OSA screening.

GLP-1s and the HCM–Sleep Apnea–Obesity Connection

ByMilind Desai, MD, MBA, FACC, FAHA, FESC,Luke Halpern, Associate Editor

September 4th 2026

Milind Desai, MD, MBA, explains the domino effect linking obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—and why treating obesity may break the chain.