Head rotation improves airway obstruction, especially in patients with less severe obstructive sleep apnea without oropharyngeal collapse

• Shi Nee Tan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, School of Medicine, KPJ University College, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2501-9424

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• Jong-Min Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Jisun Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Chung Man Sung,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Hong Chan Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Jongho Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Sang Chul Lim,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• David P. White,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Hyung Chae Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blessed@jnu.ac.kr (HCY); awellman@bwh.harvard.edu (DAW)

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9187-1367

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• D. Andrew Wellman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blessed@jnu.ac.kr (HCY); awellman@bwh.harvard.edu (DAW)

  Affiliation Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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