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Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

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Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is the commonest sleep-related breathing disorder, defined by repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep causing intermittent hypoxia, sleep fragmentation and daytime somnolence. It sits at the crossroads of respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic medicine, and is a recurring favourite in NEET PG because of its crisp diagnostic cut-offs (AHI), its gold-standard test (polysom

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