Obstructive sleep apnea and outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism: A large-scale database study

Saud Alawad; Nawaf Al-Saeed; Ahmad Jarrar; Sijin Wen; Sunil Sharma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0342850

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Obstructive sleep apnea and outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism: A large-scale database study

Saud Alawad,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Nawaf Al-Saeed,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Ahmad Jarrar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Sijin Wen,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, West Virginia School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
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Sunil Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sunil.sharma@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-8240

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Obstructive sleep apnea and outcomes in acute pulmonary embolism: A large-scale database study

Saud Alawad,
Nawaf Al-Saeed,
Ahmad Jarrar,
Sijin Wen,
Sunil Sharma

Published: March 13, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0342850

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