Open AccessResponse to Brugniaux, Foster, and Beaudin
Author(s) -
Robert J. Thomas,
David Wang,
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.00426.2016
Subject(s) - excellence , medicine , sleep medicine , gerontology , family medicine , sleep disorder , psychiatry , cognition , political science , law
to the editor: We thank Brugniaux et al. ([1][1]) for the comments, and we agree. It is likely that if sleep hypercapnia is an important mediator of cognitive impairment in sleep apnea syndromes, multiple mechanisms are at work. Altered cerebrovascular reactivity is plausibly one of them, with a
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