Change in periodic limb movement index during treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure

Sleep

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 717-720

  Baran, Alp Sinan ^a,d   Richert, Allen C ^a   Douglass, Alan B ^b   May, Warren ^a   Ansarin, Khalil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Veterans Administration   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PARASOMNIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; OXIMETRY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542540304     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/26.6.717     Document Type: Article

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