Last Word on Viewpoint: Hypercapnia is more important than hypoxia in the neuro-outcomes of sleep-disordered breathing | Zendy

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Last Word on Viewpoint: Hypercapnia is more important than hypoxia in the neuro-outcomes of sleep-disordered breathing

Author(s) -

David Wang,

Robert J. Thomas,

Brendon J. Yee,

Ronald R. Grunstein

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of applied physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253

H-Index - 229

eISSN - 8750-7587

pISSN - 1522-1601

DOI - 10.1152/japplphysiol.00354.2016

Subject(s) - excellence , sleep medicine , medicine , hypercapnia , gerontology , family medicine , sleep disorder , respiratory system , psychiatry , political science , insomnia , law

to the editor: We agree with Olaithe and colleagues (see Ref. [4][1]) that we should never “ put hypoxia to bed .” The reason is simple: in clinical sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) scenarios, there are inseparable combinations of repetitive hypoxia and hypercapnia or hypocapnia (ventilatory

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