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ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Sleep Disordered Breathing Assembly
Matteo Siciliano1, Elisa Perger2,3, Matteo Bradicich4
1Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
ERJ Open Research
|April 23, 2025
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Effective management of obstructive sleep apnoea requires accurate patient selection, integrated data analysis and multidisciplinary approaches, with machine learning enhancing disease prediction and treatment outcomes https://bit.ly/4altpxr.
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