Weight and metabolic effects of cpap in obstructive sleep apnea patients with obesity

BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with obesity, insulin resistance (IR) and diabetes. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) rapidly mitigates OSA in obese subjects but its metabolic effects are not well-characterized. We postulated that CPAP will decrease IR, ghrelin and r...

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Autores principales: Garcia, Jose M, Sharafkhaneh, Hossein, Hirshkowitz, Max, Elkhatib, Rania, Sharafkhaneh, Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-12-80

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