The impact of obstructive sleep apnea on metabolic and inflammatory markers in consecutive patients with metabolic syndrome.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is tightly linked to some components of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). However, most of the evidence evaluated individual components of the MetS or patients with a diagnosis of OSA that were referred for sleep studies due to sleep complaints. Therefore, it is not clear whet...

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Main Authors: Luciano F Drager, Heno F Lopes, Cristiane Maki-Nunes, Ivani C Trombetta, Edgar Toschi-Dias, Maria Janieire N N Alves, Raffael F Fraga, Jonathan C Jun, Carlos E Negrão, Eduardo M Krieger, Vsevolod Y Polotsky, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2920316?pdf=render