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[The relationship between abdominal fat volume and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome in obesity people]
Ju-Feng Fan1, Wei-Wei Fan, Yi-Han Gu
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospiatal of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China.
Objective:
To explore the relationship between abdominal fat volume and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome in obesity people.
Methods:
From July 2009 to July 2010, 50 patients with BMI > 25 were prospectively selected for study from the patients who complained of snoring in the Respiratory department. The patients were divided into OSAHS group and non-OSAHS group according to the result of sleep apnea monitoring. All the patients also received full abdominal CT and the whole abdominal fat volume was measured by 3-D CT reconstruction system. SPSS 13.0 was used for statistical analysis.
Results:
The whole abdominal fat volume in the two groups was analyzed by T- test, which was significantly different between the two groups (P < 0.01). It showed that there was a statistical relationship between OSAHS and abdominal fat in obesity people.
Conclusion:
In obesity people, OSAHS has a close relationship with abdominal fat volume. The abdominal fat volume is markedly higher in OSAHS patients than that in non-OSAHS people.
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