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Hypoxia: a consequence of obesity and also a tool to treat excessive weight loss

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  1. Centre for Nutrition Research/Department of Nutrition, Food Sciences and Physiology, University of Navarra, 31008, Pamplona, Spain

    Pedro González-Muniesa & J. Alfredo Martínez

  2. CIBERobn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Centre of Biomedical Research Network, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro González-Muniesa & J. Alfredo Martínez

  3. Departamento de Gastroenterología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Pablo Quintero

  4. Unidad Funcional de Sueño, Hospital Universitario Araba, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

    Jacqueline De Andrés

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González-Muniesa, P., Quintero, P., De Andrés, J. et al. Hypoxia: a consequence of obesity and also a tool to treat excessive weight loss. Sleep Breath 19, 7–8 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-014-0972-2

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