Trends in anthropometry and severity of sleep-disordered breathing over two decades of diagnostic sleep studies in an Australian adult sleep laboratory

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 213-216

  Pretto, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Gyulay, Stephen G ^a,b   Hensley, Michael J ^a,b  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TREND STUDY; WEIGHT GAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBESITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 77956636709     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03870.x     Document Type: Article

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