Clinical Benefits & The Löwenstein Difference

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Conclusion Assessing and optimizing the time spent in deep sleep in combination with compliance, AHI and leakage can significantly improve therapeutic success under PAP therapy. Such results conform to the objective of sleep medicine, which is not only the elimination of respiratory events, but the improvement in the restorative effect of sleep.

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Sleep Quality in CPAP/APAPTherapy

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