1 Cardiac Remodeling and Dysfunction in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea – A Community Based Study Joseph YS Chan*, Albert M. Li 1 *, Chun-ting Au 1 , Amy FC Lo 1 , Siu-kwan Ng 2 , Victor J. Abdullah 2 , Crover Ho 3 , Cheuk-man Yu, Tai-fai Fok 1 , Yun-kwok Wing 3 * Joint first author Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, 1 Department of Paediatrics, 2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, 3 Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Correspondence: Dr. Joseph YS Chan Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine & Therapeutics Prince of Wales Hospital The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Tel no. (852)26322211 Fax no. (852)26324590 Email: jyschan@cuhk.edu.hk Keywords: Obstructive sleep apnoea; children; cardiac remodeling Word Count: 3,028 Licence Statement: The Corresponding Author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, an exclusive licence (or non-exclusive for government employees) on a worldwide basis to the BMJ Publishing group Ltd and its Licensees to permit this article to be published in Thorax editions and any other BMJJPGL products to exploit all subsidiary rights, as set out in our licence (http://thorax.bmjjournals.com/ifora/licence.pdf). Thorax Online First, published on November 13, 2008 as 10.1136/thx.2007.094904 Copyright Article author (or their employer) 2008. Produced by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (& BTS) under licence. group.bmj.com on June 29, 2016 - Published by http://thorax.bmj.com/ Downloaded from