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Oxygen re-saturation during sleep is significantly affected by sleep stage and by cardiovascular and pulmonary comorbidities.

The research team, led by Dr. Gawon Cho, a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Medicine, studied 270 individuals ...

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