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Coexistence of OSA may compensate for sleep related reduction in neural respiratory drive in patients with COPD

BACKGROUND: The mechanisms underlying sleep-related hypoventilation in patients with coexisting COPD and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), an overlap syndrome, are incompletely understood. We compared neural respiratory drive expressed as diaphragm electromyogram (EMG(di)) and ventilation during stage...

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Autores principales: He, Bai-Ting, Lu, Gan, Xiao, Si-Chang, Chen, Rui, Steier, Joerg, Moxham, John, Polkey, Michael I, Luo, Yuan-Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27807016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208467