title: [Obesity and sleep-related breathing disorders].
abstract: Obesity, with an increasing prevalence,has become one of the most common metabolic diseases. Obesity is associated with many respiratory diseases, especially sleep-related breathing disorders including obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, and overlap syndrome. This article reviews the association between obesity and these sleep-related breathing disorders.
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, PUMC Hospital, CAMS and PUMC, Beijing 100730, China.
authors: Jin-mei
authors: JM
authors: Luo
authors: Yi
authors: Y
authors: Xiao
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D010845:Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000150:complications*; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology*