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Long-term compliance with continuous positive airway pressure in Saudi patients with obstructive sleep apnea

A prospective cohort study

Ahmed S. BaHammam, Suhail S. Alassiri, Aisha H. Al-Adab, Ibrahim M. Alsadhan, Abdullah M. Altheyab, Abdalla H. Alrayes, Mohammad M. Alkhawajah and Awad H. Olaish
Saudi Medical Journal August 2015, 36 (8) 911-919; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11716
Ahmed S. BaHammam
From the University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Suhail S. Alassiri
From the University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Aisha H. Al-Adab
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Ibrahim M. Alsadhan
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Abdullah M. Altheyab
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Abdalla H. Alrayes
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Mohammad M. Alkhawajah
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Awad H. Olaish
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vol. 36 no. 8 911-919
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11716
PubMed 
26219440

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 5, 2015
  • Accepted May 30, 2015
  • Published online August 1, 2015.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP⇑,
  2. Suhail S. Alassiri, MBBS,
  3. Aisha H. Al-Adab, MD,
  4. Ibrahim M. Alsadhan, MBBS,
  5. Abdullah M. Altheyab, MBBS,
  6. Abdalla H. Alrayes, MBBS,
  7. Mohammad M. Alkhawajah, MBBS and
  8. Awad H. Olaish, MSAIS
  1. From the University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, and the Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Ahmed BaHammam, University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 225503, Riyadh 11324, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fax. 966 (11) 4672558. E-mail: ashammam2{at}gmail.com / ashammam{at}ksu.edu.sa
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