Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 1 , Pages 17-19 , January 2001

Obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension: are peripheral chemoreceptors involved?

  • J.S. Loredo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
    • ,
  • J.L. Clausen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
    • ,
  • R.A. Nelesen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
    • ,
  • S. Ancoli-Israel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, USA
    • ,
  • M.G. Ziegler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
    • ,
  • J.E. Dimsdale

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

Received 25 May 1999 ,Accepted 29 November 1999.

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doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1086

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 1 , Pages 17-19 , January 2001

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