Symptoms of aerophagia are common in patients on continuous positive airway pressure therapy and are related to the presence of nighttime gastroesophageal reflux

Study Objectives: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), the mainstay treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), involves administration of air under pressure to the upper airway. A well-known but poorly understood side effect of positive airway pressure therapies is aerophagia, air entering...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shepherd, K., Hillman, D., Eastwood, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43299