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Obesity and Breathing Related Sleep Disorders: Concise Clinical Review

Ines Maria Grazia Piroddi, Sofia Karamichali, CORNELIUS O. BARLASCINI, Antonello Nicolini

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Abstract

The increasing prevalence of obesity has lead to an increase in the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in the general population. Obesity is a serious disorder resulting in significant health impairment. Obese adults are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from acute and chronic medical conditions. Obesity is associated with anatomic alterations that predispose to upper airway obstruction during sleep. Obesity and sleep related breathing disorders occur to a particular subgroup that includes obese patients with hypoventilation correlated with Hypercapnic-OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), Hypercapnic-OSA with OHS (hypoventilation syndrome) and OHS without OSA.

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The increasing prevalence of obesity has lead to an increase in the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in the general population. Obesity is a serious disorder resulting in significant health impairment. Obese adults are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from acute and chronic medical conditions. Obesity is associated with anatomic alterations that predispose to upper airway obstruction during sleep. Obesity and sleep related breathing disorders occur to a particular subgroup that includes obese patients with hypoventilation correlated with Hypercapnic-OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), Hypercapnic-OSA with OHS (hypoventilation syndrome) and OHS without OSA.

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The increasing prevalence of obesity has lead to an increase in the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing in the general population. Obesity is a serious disorder resulting in significant health impairment. Obese adults are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from acute and chronic medical conditions. Obesity is associated with anatomic alterations that predispose to upper airway obstruction during sleep. Obesity and sleep related breathing disorders occur to a particular subgroup that includes obese patients with hypoventilation correlated with Hypercapnic-OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), Hypercapnic-OSA with OHS (hypoventilation syndrome) and OHS without OSA.

Key concepts: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, Medicine, Hypoventilation, Obesity, Obstructive sleep apnea, Sleep apnea, Airway obstruction, Population

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