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Abdominal Fat and Sleep Apnea: the Chicken or the Egg?

Author(s) -

Kerstin M. Oltmanns

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc08-0677

Subject(s) - medicine , insulin resistance , obesity , metabolic syndrome , sleep apnea , obstructive sleep apnea , sleep (system call) , diabetes mellitus , abdominal obesity , abdominal fat , pillar , endocrinology , intensive care medicine , structural engineering , computer science , engineering , operating system

I read with great interest the article by Pillar and Shehadeh (1) on the coherences between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome and associated metabolic alterations apparently linked by obesity. The authors give a good overview of the current literature about sleep disturbances in OSA and various aspects related to the metabolic syndrome, particularly obesity, such as glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. Notwithstanding, as the authors correctly mention, the clinical picture of OSA is characterized by both sleep fragmentation and recurrent hypoxic periods, which were somewhat neglected in their …

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