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Healthy humans with a narrow upper airway maintain patency during quiet breathing by dilating the airway during inspiration

A patent upper airway is essential for survival. Increased age, obesity and some upper airway anatomical features are associated with failure to maintain upper airway patency during sleep, leading to obstructive sleep apnoea. However, many healthy subjects with these risk factors do not develop this...

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Publié dans:J Physiol
Auteurs principaux: Cheng, Shaokoon, Brown, Elizabeth C, Hatt, Alice, Butler, Jane E, Gandevia, Simon C, Bilston, Lynne E
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253475/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217376
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2014.279240
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