What are the causes of excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with sleep-disordered breathing?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 526-527

  Castiglioni, P ^a   Lombardi, C ^b   Di Rienzo, M ^a   Lugaresi, E ^c   Montagna, P ^c   Cortelli, P ^c   Parati, G ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LETTER; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FATIGUE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SOMNOLENCE;

OXYGEN;

BODY MASS INDEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; OBESITY; OXYGEN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 56149101760     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00043308     Document Type: Letter

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