Epidemiology of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea in a Danish population, age 30-60
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Surgical treatment of snoring & obstructive sleep apnoea.
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) syndrome is a potentially serious disorder affecting millions of people around the world. Many of these individuals are undiagnosed while those who are diagnosed, often exhibit poor compliance with nightly use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a very effective nonsurgical treatment. Various surgical procedures have been proposed to manage and, in some...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sleep Research
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0962-1105,1365-2869
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992.tb00045.x