Rebuttal: 'Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS): does the current definition need revisiting?'
Thorax
.
2014 Oct;69(10):955.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205656.
Epub 2014 May 23.
Authors
Nicholas Hart
1
,
Swapna Mandal
1
,
Ari Manuel
2
,
Babak Mokhlesi
3
,
Jean-Louis Pepin
4
,
Amanda Piper
5
,
John Stradling
6
Affiliations
1
Lane Fox Respiratory Unit, GSTFT and KCL Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.
2
Oxford Sleep Unit, Respiratory Department, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
3
Medicine/Pulmonary & Crit Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
4
Laboratoire HP2, Hypoxie Physiopathologies, Université Joseph Fourier; INSERM U 1042, Grenoble Cedex 09, France.
5
Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
6
Oxford Sleep unit, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK.
PMID:
24858324
DOI:
10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205656
No abstract available
Keywords:
Sleep apnoea.
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Humans
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / diagnosis*
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / physiopathology*