Measurement of the severity of sleep-disordered breathing: a moving target

Sogol Javaheri¹, Rohit Budhiraja¹, Stuart F Quan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Comment

Sogol Javaheri et al. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020.

. 2020 Feb 15;16(2):337-338.

doi: 10.5664/jcsm.8200. Epub 2020 Jan 13.

Sogol Javaheri¹, Rohit Budhiraja¹, Stuart F Quan^{1

2}

¹ Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Abstract

Javaheri S, Budhiraja R, Quan SF. Measurement of the severity of sleep-disordered breathing: a moving target. J Clin Sleep Med. 2020;16(2):337–338.

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