Nocturnal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Decreases Daytime Sympathetic Traffic in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- 7 December 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 100 (23) , 2332-2335
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.100.23.2332
Abstract
Background—Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have high levels of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). We tested the hypothesis that long-term continuous positive airway pressure (CPA...Keywords
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