Heavy snoring: Time to take it more seriously? A response to drager and Lorenzi-Filho. Heavy snoring and carotid atherosclerosis: Is there more than an association? Sleep 2008;31:1335

Sleep

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1337-

  Lee, Sharon A ^a   Amis, Terence C ^a,c   Byth, Karen ^a,c   Larcos, George ^b,c   Kairaitis, Kristina ^a,c   Robinson, Tracey D ^a   Wheatley, John R ^a,c  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING;

EID: 54349102598     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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