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A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects

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The article was published on 1968-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11993 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleep Stages & Hypnogram.

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Metabolic risk factors for vascular disease in obstructive sleep apnea: a matched controlled study

TL;DR: In a sleep clinic population, men with OSA and no identifiable cardiovascular disease have increased insulin resistance and other metabolic changes that act to increase the risk of vascular disease, compared with age- and body mass index-matched attendees without OSA.
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Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome by Heart Rate Variability Analysis

TL;DR: Time-domain HRV analysis may represent an accurate and inexpensive screening tool in clinically suspected OSAS patients and may help focus resources on those at the highest risk.
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Sleep debt: Theoretical and empirical issues

TL;DR: It is found that sleep debt can lead to fundamentally different daytime responses, depending on whether homeostatic sleep pressure or behavioral alertness is considered, which suggests the existence of an as yet unidentified regulatory mechanism of waking neurobehavioral function.
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Sleep apnea and hypertension.

TL;DR: In this paper, the central inspiratory drive response to hypoxia in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) according to their circadian BP profile, and in healthy control subjects was examined.
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