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. 2025 Jun 16;11(3):00842-2024.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.00842-2024. eCollection 2025 May.

Sleep disordered breathing in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia

Michele Arigliani  1   2 , Eleonora Dehlink  3 , Andrew Bush  1   4 , Christopher Grime  5 , Prasad Nagakumar  6   7 , Samantha Irving  1 , Laura Gardner  1 , Claire Hogg  1   4 , Siobhán B Carr  1   4 , Hui-Leng Tan  1
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Sleep disordered breathing in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia

Michele Arigliani et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

Contrary to previous pilot data, unselected children with primary ciliary dyskinesia showed a low prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in screening sleep studies, suggesting these should be performed only when SDB symptoms are present https://bit.ly/3CBXTyj.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: H-L. Tan is an Associate Editor of this journal. There are no competing interests for the other authors relevant to this article.

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