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Comment
. 2021 Feb 1;17(2):339-340.
doi: 10.5664/jcsm.9000.

Time to regroup and redirect? Sleep fragmentation and hypoxia may not be where we should focus our efforts in looking for causal pathways to cognitive deficits in OSA

Michelle Olaithe  1 , Maria Pushpanathan  1 , Romola S Bucks  1
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Comment

Time to regroup and redirect? Sleep fragmentation and hypoxia may not be where we should focus our efforts in looking for causal pathways to cognitive deficits in OSA

Michelle Olaithe et al. J Clin Sleep Med. .

Abstract

Olaithe M, Pushpanathan M, Bucks RS. Time to regroup and redirect? Sleep fragmentation and hypoxia may not be where we should focus our efforts in looking for causal pathways to cognitive deficits in OSA. J Clin Sleep Med. 2021;17(2):339–340.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors have seen and approved the manuscript. Work for this manuscript was performed at the University of Western Australia. The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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