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SUBMITTER: Lederer DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2739049 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lederer D J DJ Jelic S S Basner R C RC Ishizaka A A Bhattacharya J J
The European respiratory journal 20090401 4
In obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), oxidative stress contributes to endothelial dysfunction in the peripheral circulation. In the lung, oxidative stress can lead to alveolar injury. The present authors hypothesised that patients with OSA would have biomarker evidence of increased alveolar wall permeability. Sleep characteristics, brachial artery flow-mediated dilation and plasma KL-6 levels were observed in 11 otherwise healthy patients with OSA and 10 controls. Median (interquartile range) plasm ...[more]