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Sleep Medicine

Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 497-498
Sleep Medicine

Letter to the Editor
Impaired sleep quality in fibromyalgia: Detection and quantification with ECG-based cardiopulmonary coupling spectrograms

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Conflict of Interest

The following authors have a conflict of interest: Robert Joseph Thomas, M.D., Joseph E. Mietus, B.S., Chung-Kang Peng, Ph.D. and Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. They are all co-inventors of the sleep spectrogram technique, which is patented and licensed to Embla, Inc by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. All listed are covered by formal institutional royalty sharing properties. The payments in the past year have been less than $ 10,000. CKP is co-owner of DynaDx, Inc., a firm dedicated to the

Acknowledgements

Supported in part by grants from Pfizer, Inc., the Arthritis Foundation, Michigan Chapter, the Periodic Breathing Foundation, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, and the NIH-sponsored Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals (UO1EB008577). This work was performed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

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