Ratneswaran, Deeban
Guni, Ahmad
Pengo, Martino F
Al-Sherif, Miral
He, Baiting
Cheng, Michael CF
Steier, Joerg
Schwarz, Esther I http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8840-981X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Lung Foundation (-)
European Respiratory Society (LTRF 201801-00285)
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London (-)
Article History
Received: 8 January 2020
Revised: 23 February 2020
Accepted: 19 March 2020
First Online: 9 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: J.S. is named inventor on a patent for an apparatus to use transcutaneous electrical stimulation to treat obstructive sleep apnea and snoring (WO2016124739A1). No other conflicts of interest related to the content of the manuscript are reported.
: The systematic review has been registered on PROSPERO (PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017074674).
: Dr. Esther I Schwarz is the guarantor of this work and, as such, had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data, the accuracy of the data analysis, and the integrity of the submission as a whole.
: The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of the study, analysis and interpretation of the data, or writing the manuscript.