Should we routinely screen patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for nocturnal hypoxemia?

Sleep Breath. 2013 May;17(2):447-8. doi: 10.1007/s11325-012-0716-0. Epub 2012 May 6.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cohort Studies
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnosis
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / epidemiology
  • Hypoxia / diagnosis*
  • Hypoxia / epidemiology*
  • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / diagnosis*
  • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Mass Screening*
  • Middle Aged
  • Prospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / diagnosis*
  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / epidemiology
  • Statistics as Topic