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Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE
A pandemic of obesity is sweeping all across the globe and the Middle East region also does not remain untouched by this prevailing pandemic. In fact, as per WHO report, Kuwait has the second highest obesity prevalence followed closely by other Middle East (ME) countries, namely, Qatar, Saudi Arabia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192288/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28070158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9673054 |
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author | Vats, Mayank G. Mahboub, Bassam H. Al Hariri, Hassan Al Zaabi, Ashraf Vats, Deepa |
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description | A pandemic of obesity is sweeping all across the globe and the Middle East region also does not remain untouched by this prevailing pandemic. In fact, as per WHO report, Kuwait has the second highest obesity prevalence followed closely by other Middle East (ME) countries, namely, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Apart from direct medical, psychological, and quality of life related adverse effects of obesity, many indirect medical comorbidities, namely, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), and metabolic syndrome, imposes a significant health burden on the individual and community with consequent morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this review is to shed light on the very high prevalence of obesity, undiagnosed sleep apnea, and other obesity related disorders with discussion of the contributing factors specific to the region including the fair insight into the current status of sleep medicine services in Middle East and UAE despite huge number of patients having undiagnosed sleep disorders. We will also suggest to control this epidemic of obesity and OSA so that the corrective measure could be taken at health ministry level to help people of this region to fight against obesity and related disorders, primarily OSA. |
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spelling | pubmed-51922882017-01-09 Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE Vats, Mayank G. Mahboub, Bassam H. Al Hariri, Hassan Al Zaabi, Ashraf Vats, Deepa Can Respir J Review Article A pandemic of obesity is sweeping all across the globe and the Middle East region also does not remain untouched by this prevailing pandemic. In fact, as per WHO report, Kuwait has the second highest obesity prevalence followed closely by other Middle East (ME) countries, namely, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Apart from direct medical, psychological, and quality of life related adverse effects of obesity, many indirect medical comorbidities, namely, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), and metabolic syndrome, imposes a significant health burden on the individual and community with consequent morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this review is to shed light on the very high prevalence of obesity, undiagnosed sleep apnea, and other obesity related disorders with discussion of the contributing factors specific to the region including the fair insight into the current status of sleep medicine services in Middle East and UAE despite huge number of patients having undiagnosed sleep disorders. We will also suggest to control this epidemic of obesity and OSA so that the corrective measure could be taken at health ministry level to help people of this region to fight against obesity and related disorders, primarily OSA. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5192288/ /pubmed/28070158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9673054 Text en Copyright © 2016 Mayank G. Vats et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Vats, Mayank G. Mahboub, Bassam H. Al Hariri, Hassan Al Zaabi, Ashraf Vats, Deepa Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title | Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title_full | Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title_fullStr | Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title_full_unstemmed | Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title_short | Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE |
title_sort | obesity and sleep-related breathing disorders in middle east and uae |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192288/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28070158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9673054 |
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