Alveolar hypoventilation in the obese: The obesity-hypoventilation syndrome;L'hypoventilation alvéolaire de l'obèse: Le syndrome obésité-hypoventilation

Revue de Pneumologie Clinique

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 83-90

  Weitzenblum, E ^a   Kessler, R ^a   Chaouat, A ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Alveolar hypoventilation; Chronic respiratory failure; Hypoxemia hypercapnia; Obesity; Obesity hypoventilation syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY MASS; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS HYPOVENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPIROGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOVENTILATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPOVENTILATION; OBESITY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0036295996     PISSN: 07618417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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