A reminder that experimentally induced intermittent hypoxia is an incomplete model of obstructive sleep apnea and its outcome measures
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A Model to Simulate Clinically Relevant Hypoxia in Humans
Published on: December 22, 2016
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Jason H Mateika1,2,3
1Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
Journal of Applied Physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
|October 11, 2019
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