Aging influences on pharyngeal anatomy and physiology: the predisposition to pharyngeal collapse

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72.e9-72.e14

  Malhotra, Atul ^a   Huang, Yaqi ^a   Fogel, Robert ^a   Lazic, Stan ^a   Pillar, Giora ^a   Jakab, Marianna ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^a   White, David P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP PATTERN; SNORING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 30944455026     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.077     Document Type: Article

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