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ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2015

Cost-effectiveness of CPAP treatment related to cardiovascular disease in patients with severe OSAS: the Greek experience.

Charalampos Mermigkis, Izolde Bouloukaki, Sophia E Schiza

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Article in Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The Global Burden of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Charalampos MermigkisSleep Disorders Unit, Department of Thoracic Medicine, University General Hospital, Medical School of the University of Crete, Thrakis 61A, Vrilissia, Athens, Greece, mermigh@gmail.com.
Izolde Bouloukaki
Sophia E Schiza

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Cardiovascular DiseasesContinuous Positive Airway PressureFemaleHealth Care CostsHumansMaleSleep Apnea, Obstructive

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