The Neuropsychological Effects of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Meta-Analysis of Norm-Referenced and Case-Controlled Data
Author(s) -
Dean W. Beebe,
Lisa M. Groesz,
Carolyn T. Wells,
Alisha Nichols,
Kevin McGee
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/26.3.298
Subject(s) - obstructive sleep apnea , neuropsychology , meta analysis , medicine , norm (philosophy) , sleep apnea , psychology , audiology , cardiology , psychiatry , cognition , political science , law
The research literature on the neuropsychological effects of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has yielded seemingly contradictory findings, and narrative reviews of this literature are prone to interpretive errors. We used sophisticated meta-analytic models to minimize such errors, with the goal of clarifying the effect of OSA on neuropsychological functioning.
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