Adult obstructive sleep apnea: pathophysiology and diagnosis.

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Published in Chest on July 01, 2007

Authors

Susheel P Patil1, Hartmut Schneider, Alan R Schwartz, Philip L Smith

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1: Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. spatil@jhmi.edu

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