When should specific occupational challenge tests be performed?

Chest

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1196-1198

  Tarlo, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; NIGHT SLEEP; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

EID: 84877607921     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.12-2776     Document Type: Editorial

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