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Volume 346:390 February 7, 2002 Number 6 Next

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Breathing and sleeping are two very basic processes. If you stop breathing for more than a few minutes, life itself stops. Sleep is a little more forgiving, but if you stop sleeping, or fail to achieve a truly rejuvenating sleep, it is not long before life is pretty miserable. Since these two physiologic processes are so important, it has been somewhat surprising to discover over the past 25 years that disordered, even disrupted, breathing during sleep is a substantial medical problem.

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