The AHI is useful but limited: how can we do better?

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Comment

Atul Malhotra et al. Sleep. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 13;44(9):zsab150.

doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsab150.

¹ Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
² VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

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