Letter to the editor relating to Graefe’s Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2020 258:939-941. “CPAP therapy reduces oxidative stress in patients with glaucoma and OSAS and improves the visual field”

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Turnbull, C.D., Heitmar, R. Letter to the editor relating to Graefe’s Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2020 258:939-941. “CPAP therapy reduces oxidative stress in patients with glaucoma and OSAS and improves the visual field”. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-020-04823-4

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