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Neck fat and obstructive sleep apnea in obese adolescents.
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- A Systematic Review of Risk factors for Sleep Apnea.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
- Sex difference in nocturnal blood pressure dipping in adolescents with varying degrees of adiposity.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
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- Causal Relationship Between Childhood Obesity and Sleep Apnea Syndrome: Bidirectional Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis.Nature and science of sleep · 2024Article
- The Cervical Fat Tissue Volume is a Predictor for Moderate to Severe OSA.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023Article
- The Predictive Role of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in the Pathogenesis of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Neck-to-height ratio is positively associated with diabetic kidney disease in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- [Ultrasound measurement of upper airway related indicators and patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea correlation study of disease severity].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
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objectivesIncreased neck circumference, a surrogate for the neck fat that can narrow the upper airway in obese individuals, is a risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in adults, but the association between neck fat and OSAS in adolescent males and females is unknown. We hypothesized that obese adolescents with OSAS have more neck fat than controls, females more neck fat than males, and that neck fat correlates with obesity and OSAS severity.
methodsObese adolescents with OSAS and obese and normal-weight controls underwent upper airway magnetic resonance imaging, polysomnography, and anthropometrics, including neck circumference measurement. Intra-neck and subcutaneous neck fat measurements were manually segmented and compared among the three groups using ANOVA and between males and females using t-tests. The relationship between polysomnographic parameters and neck fat measurements was assessed in adolescents with OSAS using Pearson correlations.
resultsOne-hundred nineteen adolescents (38 females) were studied: 39 obese with OSAS, 34 obese controls, and 46 normal-weight controls. Neck fat was not greater in adolescents with OSAS compared to obese controls (p=0.35), and neck fat volume was not related to OSAS severity (p = 0.36). However, obese adolescents had more neck fat than normal-weight controls (p < 0.001), and neck fat volume correlated with neck circumference (r = 0.53, p < 0.001). Females had significantly greater cross-sectional neck fat than males (p < 0.001).
conclusionsWhile neck fat is associated with obesity and neck circumference in adolescents and is greater in females versus males, it does not appear to correlate with presence and severity of OSAS.
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