Volume : 7, Issue : 12, December - 2018

A STUDY OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA AND ITS CORELATION WITH OTHER DISEASES

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Dr Mahendra Chouhan

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Background</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp; To study the anthropometric parameter in patient of obstructive sleep apnoea and to find out &nbsp;its association &nbsp;with associated comorbities .</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Methods</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> 30 patients of OSA were previewed by polysomnographic study from the clinically&nbsp; suspected OSA patient by applying STOP BANG criteria with score of &gt;5, and equal number of age and sex match control subjects coming to OPD/IPD were studied. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Results </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Majority of patients belong to middle age group. Snoring was the most important symptom reported by the patients followed by eathing pause (96.7%), day time tiredness (93.3%) and systemic hypertension (40%).Certain co-morbid condition like hypertension was present in (40%), hypothyroidism (10%) and 3.3% each were having diabetes and epilepsy.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Conclusion</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> Sleep apnea is a common disorder that if not recognized and treated leads to significant morbidity and increased mortality. Early recognition and treatment of OSA should be our aim. Treatment of OSA may represent a novel target to improve health outcome.&nbsp;</span></p>