Nieto-Pino, Joaquín
Retamal-Riquelme, Eva
Henriquez-Beltrán, Mario
Otto-Yañez, Matías https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5784-275X
Torres-Castro, Rodrigo
Labarca, Gonzalo
Article History
Received: 28 March 2025
Accepted: 3 July 2025
First Online: 2 August 2025
Declarations
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: One of the authors (GL) declares potential conflicts of interest. He has received research funding or support from the following institutions: Universidad de Concepción (Chile), CHEST Foundation, AASM, NIH, Sleep Research Society, and the ResMed Foundation. All other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The study was conducted following the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees, as well as the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its subsequent amendments. The Ethics Scientific Committee of the participating institution approved the protocol (ID: 12–09–2023). It waived the requirement for informed consent due to the protocol's retrospective design and the use of anonymized data. All data used in this study were anonymized before analysis, handled in compliance with institutional data protection regulations, and accessed exclusively by the research team.