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ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2020

When will we ditch the AHI?

Christine H J Won

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Article in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Craniofacial features in children with obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022
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  10. Use of facial stereophotogrammetry as a screening tool for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea by dental specialists.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022
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  11. Obstructive sleep apnea in pregnancy: 1 sleep study may not be enough in high-risk women.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021
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  12. The AHI: not all that it's cracked up to be.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020
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  13. Not so fast: do not ditch the data if you do not like them.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Christine H J WonSection of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

HypertensionSleep Apnea, ObstructiveHumansHypoxiaOxygenOxygen

Identifiers

PMID32441250
PMCPMC7954058

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