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Anthropometric Correlation with Pathophysiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): A Review

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Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is a type of breathing disorder with upper airway obstruction, leading to oxy-haemoglobin desaturations and sleep disturbance. However awareness regarding various anthropometric parameters used to analyse OSA syndrome pre-clinically is inadequate. In developing nations, like India, resources are not adequate for analysis of sleep disturbances. That is why the prevalence and validity of various anthropometric parameters including neck circumference, Body mass index and waist circumference to be established and verified regularly. We have also seen the data from oral aspect and its anomalies. Various articles from Pubmed, scopus, google scholar were searched for data. These body measurements may provide pre-clinical aspect of OSA, whether it is present or not. Discussion was done on these anthropometric parameters and which parameter is gold standard for the pre-clinical investigations.

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Thukral, H., Gupta, G., Sinha, S. et al. Anthropometric Correlation with Pathophysiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): A Review. Sleep Vigilance 4, 95–103 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41782-020-00089-2

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