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[The connection between respiratory disorders during sleep and peripheral autonomic insufficiency in diabetics]
Zhurnal Nevrologii I Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
To reveal the connection between sleep breathing disturbances (SBD) and autonomic insufficiency (AI) 23 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) were examined (7 cases of insulin-dependent DM and 16 cases of noninsulin-dependent DM). Clinical examination, night polysomnography and autonomic nervous system assessment were performed. No connection between the existence and severity of AI and SBD was found in patients with DM of both types. Patients with more pronounced obesity had significantly higher number of SBD. The conclusion was made that SBD were not connected with AI in patients with DM, but obesity was an important factor in their genesis.