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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |