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Displacement of the hyoid bone by muscle paralysis and lung volume increase: the effects of obesity and obstructive sleep apnea

STUDY OBJECTIVES: Animal studies suggest a pivotal role of the hyoid bone in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We aimed to explore the role of the hyoid bone in humans by testing the hypotheses that muscle paralysis and lung volume (LV) changes displace the hyoid bone position particularly in people wi...

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Autores principales: Kohno, Akane, Kitamura, Yuji, Kato, Shinichiro, Imai, Hirohisa, Masuda, Yoshitada, Sato, Yasunori, Isono, Shiroh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30371885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsy198