The Nijmegen Questionnaire and dysfunctional breathing

Jan van Dixhoorn, Hans Folgering, Jan van Dixhoorn, Hans Folgering

Abstract

The Nijmegen Questionnaire is useful to quantify and assess the normality of subjective sensations http://ow.ly/MBJj1.

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Nijmegen Questionnaire (NQ) scores (mean±sd) of hyper- ventilation syndrome (HVS) and non-HVS subjects in two validation studies.

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