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cord-355669-90rauz66	Strausz, S.	Sleep apnoea is a risk factor for severe COVID-19	2020-09-28		.txt	text/plain	2100	128	53	Our findings suggest that, in assessment of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection, OSA needs to be recognized as one of the comorbidity risk factors for developing a severe form of the disease. We specifically aimed at evaluating if OSA associates with the risk for severe COVID-19 infection independently of other potential risk factors including age, sex, BMI, hypertension, diabetes (including type 1 and type 2 diabetes), coronary heart disease (CHD), asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and also whether the risk for contracting COVID-19 is elevated among OSA patients. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202051 doi: medRxiv preprint In our study OSA patients had five times higher risk of being hospitalized and the estimate was comparable and independent of the risk in diabetes patients, where elevated risk has been reported earlier for severe COVID-19 16 .	./cache/cord-355669-90rauz66.txt	./txt/cord-355669-90rauz66.txt