The epidemiology of sleep apnoea.
ThoraxPublished 1 August 1996Open access
Robert J.O. Davies, John Stradling
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A study of the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in subjects derived from a random sample of the population, and the independent predictors of SDB among snorers were age, body mass index, and neck circumference.
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