Obstructive sleep apnea in loudly snoring army conscripts

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 879-881

  Mäkelä, Jyrki P ^a,b   Savolainen, Seppo ^a  

^a CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; APNEA INDEX; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS PARAMETERS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN DESATURATION INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SHIP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

OXYGEN;

BODY MASS INDEX; FATIGUE; HUMANS; OXYGEN; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SNORING;

EID: 34547947823     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.8.879     Document Type: Article

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