Helicobacter pylori may play a role in both obstructive sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 212-213

  Stergiopoulos, Christos ^a   Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Daskalopoulou Vlachoyianni, Euphemia ^b   Polyzos, Stergios A ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Vlachoyiannis, Emmanuel ^b   Kokkali, Stamatia ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Kapetanakis, Nikolaos ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Gavalas, Emmanuel ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Agios Pavlos Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STOMACH BIOPSY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84856436907     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.04.016     Document Type: Letter

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