Harvard Heart Letter November 2008: References and further reading

Sleep apnea and heart disease

Published: November, 2008

Somers VK, White DP, Amin R, et al. Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: an American Heart Association/American College Of Cardiology Foundation Scientific Statement. Circulation 2008; 118:1080-111. http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/118/10/1080.pdf

Young T, Finn L, Peppard PE, et al. Sleep disordered breathing and mortality: eighteen-year follow-up of the Wisconsin sleep cohort. Sleep 2008; 31:1071-8. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18714778

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