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- Title
Treatment with continuous positive airway pressure is not effective in patients with sleep apnea but no daytime sleepiness. a randomized, controlled trial.
- Authors
Barbé, F; Mayoralas, L R; Duran, J; Masa, J F; Maimó, A; Montserrat, J M; Monasterio, C; Bosch, M; Ladaria, A; Rubio, M; Rubio, R; Medinas, M; Hernandez, L; Vidal, S; Douglas, N J; Agustí, A G
- Abstract
The sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome is defined by a pathologic number of respiratory events during sleep (the apnea-hypopnea index, defined as the number of apnea and hypopnea episodes per hour) and daytime symptoms (mostly, excessive sleepiness). In patients with the sleep apnea syndrome, treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) normalizes both the apnea-hypopnea index and diurnal symptoms. However, the effect of CPAP in persons with a pathologic apnea-hypopnea index without daytime sleepiness is unclear.
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2001, Vol 134, Issue 11, p1015
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-134-11-200106050-00007