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vol. 12 no. 1 50-60
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- Published online March 14, 2016.
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©ERS 2016 Breathe articles are open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence 4.0.
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- 1Sleep and Respiratory Dept, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage, UK
- 2Academic Unit of Sleep and Ventilation, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
- 3Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- E-mail: alison.mcmillan1{at}nhs.net
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Vol 12 Issue 1
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Sleep disordered breathing at the extremes of age: the elderly
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- Article
- Abstract
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Risk factors for the development of SDB ‘in old people
- Symptoms of SDB in older people
- Consequences of SDB in older people
- Diagnosis
- Treatments for SDB
- Adherence to CPAP treatment in older people
- Overall summary
- Further reading
- Current treatment trials results awaited
- Case study
- Footnotes
- References
- Figures & Data
- Info & Metrics