About the Authors

Marina Florés

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Florés, Jordi de Batlle

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Jordi de Batlle

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Florés, Jordi de Batlle

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Alicia Sánchez-de-la-Torre

Affiliations Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Manuel Sánchez-de-la-Torre

sanchezdelatorre@gmail.com

Affiliations Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Albina Aldomá

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Fernando Worner

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Estefanía Galera

Affiliation Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Asunción Seminario

Affiliation Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain

Gerard Torres

Affiliations Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Mireia Dalmases

Affiliations Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

Josep M. Montserrat

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain, Servicio de Neumología, Unidad del Sueño, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Onintza Garmendia

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain, Servicio de Neumología, Unidad del Sueño, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ferran Barbé

Affiliations Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria, IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain

on behalf of the Spanish Sleep Group

Membership of the Spanish Sleep Group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

FB received research grants from ResMed Inc., Australia, a company that develops products related to sleep apnoea; the Health Research Fund; Spanish Ministry of Health; the Spanish Respiratory Society (SEPAR); the Catalonian Cardiology Society; Esteve-Teijin (Spain); Oxigen Salud (Spain); and ALLER to develop the ISAACC clinical trial (NCT01335087). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MF JdB FB MSdlT. Data curation: MF JdB ASdlT OG. Formal analysis: JdB. Funding acquisition: FB MSdlT. Investigation: MF AA EG ASdlT MD OG. Methodology: MF JdB FB MSdlT ASdlT. Project administration: MF. Resources: FB MSdlT. Supervision: FB MSdlT. Writing – original draft: MF JdB. Writing – review & editing: MF JdB ASdlT MSdlT AA FW EG AS GT MD JM OG FB.