Tongue fat and its relationship to obstructive sleep apnea

Sleep

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1639-1648D

  Kim, Andrew M ^a   Keenan, Brendan T ^a   Jackson, Nicholas ^a   Chan, Eugenia L ^a   Staley, Bethany ^a   Poptani, Harish ^c   Torigian, Drew A ^c   Pack, Allan I ^a,b   Schwab, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Obstructive sleep apnea; Tongue fat

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADULT; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBESITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TONGUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TONGUE;

EID: 84901700513     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.4072     Document Type: Article

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