Sleep-related breathing disorders. 1. Obstructive sleep apnoea: definitions, epidemiology, and natural history.
ThoraxPublished 1 June 1995Open access
John Stradling
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Definitions, epidemiology, and the natural history of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are usefully considered together, and it is probably not very useful to try to define a threshold for normality, but rather to accept that a continuum exists and quote prevalences for various levels of "sleep apNoea activity".
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