Abstract:Introduction
Sleep apnea is caused by several key endophenotypic traits namely pharyngeal collapsibility, poor muscle compensation, ventilatory instability (high loop gain), and arousability from sleep (low arousal threshold). Already, measures of these traits have shown promise for predicting outcomes of therapies (oral appliances, surgery, hypoglossal nerve stimulation, CPAP, or pharmaceuticals) and thus may be an integral part of future precision sleep medicine with treatments administered… Show more
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