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AHRQ report is ‘call to action’

June 18, 2021Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

DARIEN, Ill. – A recent draft report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that says studies mostly do not support long-term benefits of CPAP therapy on cardiovascular and other health outcomes has sleep professionals “up in arms,” says Dr. Susheel Patil, chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. “The sleep community is not clear on what the motivation for the report is,” he says. “I think the question becomes whether the AHRQ realizes...

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