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The SAVE Trial: Has the Importance of CPAP for Preventing Cardiovascular Events been Discounted?

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  1. Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, The University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed S. Bahammam

  2. Somnogen Canada Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada

    Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal

  3. 652 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, M6K 2B4, Canada

    David Warren Spence

  4. Sleep and Fatigue Institute, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Adam Moscovitch

  5. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    David L. Streiner

  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    David L. Streiner

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Bahammam, A.S., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Spence, D.W. et al. The SAVE Trial: Has the Importance of CPAP for Preventing Cardiovascular Events been Discounted?. Sleep Vigilance 1, 47–48 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41782-017-0003-z

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