Sleep apnoea in the elderly - authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit (MRC CTU) at University College London, Aviation House, London, UK.
³ Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
⁴ Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit (ORTU), University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit (ORTU), University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK; Oxford University and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France, Edinburgh, UK.
⁷ Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: m.morrell@imperial.ac.uk.

Comment

Alison McMillan et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;2(11):e21-e22.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70240-1. Epub 2014 Nov 3.

¹ Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit (MRC CTU) at University College London, Aviation House, London, UK.
³ Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
⁴ Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit (ORTU), University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit (ORTU), University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK; Oxford University and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France, Edinburgh, UK.
⁷ Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK; Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: m.morrell@imperial.ac.uk.

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Continuous positive airway pressure in older people with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (PREDICT): a 12-month, multicentre, randomised trial.
McMillan A, Bratton DJ, Faria R, Laskawiec-Szkonter M, Griffin S, Davies RJ, Nunn AJ, Stradling JR, Riha RL, Morrell MJ; PREDICT Investigators. McMillan A, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2014 Oct;2(10):804-12. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70172-9. Epub 2014 Aug 26. Lancet Respir Med. 2014. PMID: 25172769 Clinical Trial.
Sleep apnoea in the elderly.
Ahmad N, Srinivasan K, Naicker TR, Moudgil H. Ahmad N, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2014 Nov;2(11):e21. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70224-3. Epub 2014 Nov 3. Lancet Respir Med. 2014. PMID: 25439573 No abstract available.