Enhanced upper-airway muscle responsiveness is a distinct feature of overweight/obese individuals without sleep apnea.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on October 15, 2014

Authors

Scott A Sands1, Danny J Eckert, Amy S Jordan, Bradley A Edwards, Robert L Owens, James P Butler, Richard J Schwab, Stephen H Loring, Atul Malhotra, David P White, Andrew Wellman

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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