Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome: increased risk of death over sleep apnea syndrome.

Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome: increased risk of death over sleep apnea syndrome.

AIM:To study whether mortality and cardiovascular morbidity differ in non-invasive ventilation (NIV)-treated patients with severe obesity-hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) as compared with CPAP-treated patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), and to identify independent predictors of mort...

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Main Authors: Olalla Castro-Añón, Luis A Pérez de Llano, Sandra De la Fuente Sánchez, Rafael Golpe, Lidia Méndez Marote, Julián Castro-Castro, Arturo González Quintela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4324970?pdf=render

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