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Leila Kheirandish-Gozal

Researcher at University of Missouri

Publications -  239
Citations -  15693

Leila Kheirandish-Gozal is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Obstructive sleep apnea & Sleep apnea. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 227 publications receiving 12785 citations. Previous affiliations of Leila Kheirandish-Gozal include Boston Children's Hospital & University of Louisville.

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Metabolic alterations and systemic inflammation in obstructive sleep apnea among nonobese and obese prepubertal children.

TL;DR: The significant improvements in lipid profiles, C-reactive protein, and apolipoprotein B after adenotonsillectomy in the two groups suggest a pathogenic role for OSA in lipid homeostasis and systemic inflammation independent of the degree of adiposity.
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Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Complications, Management, and Long-term Outcomes

TL;DR: The clinical prototypic pediatric patient of the early 1990s has been insidiously replaced by a different phenotypic presentation that strikingly resembles that of adults afflicted by the disease, and the terms type I and type II pediatric OSA have been proposed.