Upper Airway Collapsibility and Genioglossus Activity in Adolescents during Sleep

STUDY OBJECTIVES: Obese patients develop obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), at least in part because of a narrowed upper airway. However, many obese adolescents do not develop OSAS, despite having a presumably narrower airway. The reasons for this phenomenon are unclear. The authors hypothesiz...

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Auteurs principaux: Huang, Jingtao, Pinto, Swaroop J., Yuan, Haibo, Katz, Eliot S., Karamessinis, Laurie R., Bradford, Ruth M., Gallagher, Paul R., Hannigan, James T., Nixon, Thomas, Ward, Michelle B., Lee, Yin N., Marcus, Carole L.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC 2012
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Upper Airway Collapsibility and Genioglossus Activity in Adolescents
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443760/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024432
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5665/sleep.2110
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