Sleep Disturbance and Obesity
Open Access
- 8 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 161 (1), 102-106
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.161.1.102
Abstract
SLEEP-DISORDERED breathing (SDB), particularly in the form of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), occurs in approximately 4% of men and 2% of women in the general population.1 Obesity, especially upper body obesity, is considered a major risk factor for OSA, and clinical assessments and sleep studies1 indicate a prevalence of OSA in very severe obesity (ie, body mass index [BMI] [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters] >40) to be 42% to 48% in men and 8% to 38% in women.Keywords
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