Gender differences in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 445-453

  BaHammam, Ahmed S ^a,b   Pandi Perumal, Seithikurippu R ^c   Piper, Amanda ^d,e   Bahammam, Salman A ^a   Almeneessier, Aljohara S ^a   Olaish, Awad H ^a,b   Javaheri, Shahrokh ^f  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b The Strategic Technologies Program of the National Plan for Sciences and Technology and Innovation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SOMNOGEN CANADA INC   (Canada)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f Bethesda North Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

co morbidities; daytime sleepiness; hypercapnia; hypoxemia; positive airway pressure; respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPIROMETRY; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84981164331     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12400     Document Type: Article

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