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To the Editor: Sleep-disordered breathing is a clinical disorder consisting of apnea and hypopnea during sleep; it affects about 4 percent of the general population.¹ We examined sleep-disordered breathing in a group of National Football League players. We used a value of 0.5 on the multivariable apnea-prediction index, on the basis of data from eight randomly selected teams, to stratify players according to the risk of sleep-disordered breathing (high or low).² Players from both risk groups were randomly selected for overnight polysomnography, with oversampling from the high-risk group. Of a total of 302 players who could be evaluated (mean [±SD] . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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