Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3177337 | Sleep Medicine | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
SDB in healthy young children and in clinical patients is significantly associated with impaired cardiac autonomic modulation, i.e., sympathetic overflow and weaker parasympathetic modulation, which may contribute to increased risk of acute cardiac events in persons with SDB, even before reaching the “high risk age.”
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Authors
Duanping Liao, Xian Li, Sol M. Rodriguez-Colon, Jiahao Liu, Alexandros N. Vgontzas, Susan Calhoun, Edward O. Bixler,