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ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2025

Response to letter to the editor: "association between obstructive sleep apnea and hearing loss among a cohort of emergency responders".

David W Appel, David G Goldfarb, Rachel Zeig-Owens, Jaeun Choi, Gregory Flamme, Yang Liu, Theresa Schwartz, David J Prezant

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Article in Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

David W AppelThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA. wdappel@montefiore.org.
David G GoldfarbThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA. David.goldfarb@fdny.nyc.gov.ORCID 0000-0003-2682-7543
Rachel Zeig-OwensThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Jaeun ChoiDivision of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Gregory FlammeStephenson and Stephenson, Research and Consulting, LLC Batavia, Batavia, OH, USA.
Yang LiuThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Theresa SchwartzThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
David J PrezantThe Bureau of Health Services and the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Funding

NIOSH CDC HHS 75D301-22-R-72142NIOSH CDC HHS 75D301-22-R-72244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hearing lossIntermittent hypoxiaObstructive sleep apnea

Identifiers

PMID40986094

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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