Serum nitrite and nitrate levels in children with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-262

  Kaditis, Athanasios ^a   Alexopoulos, Emmanouel ^a   Ntamagka, Georgia ^a   Chaidas, Konstantinos ^a   Karathanasi, Anastasia ^a   Gougoura, Sofia ^a   Papathanasiou, Afroditi A ^a   Liakos, Panagiotis ^a   Zintzaras, Elias ^a,b   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Endothelium; Nitrate; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NITRATES; NITRITES; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 76949095762     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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