Complex sleep apnea: It isn't really a disease

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 406-408

  Malhotra, Atul ^a   Bertisch, Suzie ^a   Wellman, Andrew ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING PATTERN; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; STANDARD;

EID: 55349114039     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.27273     Document Type: Article

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