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SAN DIEGO, Calif. - A new study has borne out what HME provider Renee McPhee has suspected for quite awhile: You can't be a 379pound NFL lineman with a 26-inch neck and not have sleep apnea.
"You just can't," said McPhee, a sleep specialist who owns Southern Medical in Atlanta. "I'm 99% positive."
McPhee issued her observation in early January, a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl. A week later, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a clinical study that validated her observation.
Conducted during the summer of 2002, the SleepTech / ResMed study involved more than300players from eight NFL teams - Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, and the Washington Redskins...