Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-95

  Edwards, Natalie ^a   Sullivan, Colin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; RELAXIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FETUS MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LUNG VOLUME; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 64749112295     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2007.10.010     Document Type: Review

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