Continuous positive airway pressure adherence declines with age in elderly obstructive sleep apnoea patients

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Mar 4;5(1):00178-2018. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00178-2018. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia¹, Irene Valero-Sánchez², Nuria Reyes-Nuñez³, Grace Oscullo¹, Alberto Garcia-Ortega¹, Jose Daniel Gómez-Olivas¹, Francisco Campos-Rodriguez^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Pneumology Dept, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico la Fe, Valencia, Spain.
² Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre, Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, UK.
³ Respiratory Dept, Hospital Universitario Valme, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS), Seville, Spain.
⁴ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.

Abstract

In the very elderly, the indication and prescription of continuous positive airway pressure should be individualised http://ow.ly/NHfN30nC6VK.