OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/HYPOPNEA SYNDROME

Authors

  • Geruza A. Silva Departamento de Clínica Médica.Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Leonardo A T Giacon Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.v39i2p185-194

Keywords:

Apnea. Sleep. Snoring. Disorders of Excessive Somnolonce. Sleep Apnea Syndromes. Sleep Apnea, Obstrutive.

Abstract

Respiratory sleep disorders are a relatively new topic in Medicine, its management being multidisciplinary. Its importance is raising since the early 1980 when the diagnostic and therapeutic tools started to become largely available. That made it possible to convincingly show the role of sleep and sleep disorders in raising morbidity and mortality. The prevalence has also raise since the first epidemiologic studies in adults mostly because of risk factors like obesity and age rise. The sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome is the most important and common respiratory sleep disorder, being about 80% of those cases that look for care at Clinics of Sleep Study.

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Author Biographies

  • Geruza A. Silva, Departamento de Clínica Médica.Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

    Docente. Disciplina de Pneumologia. Departamento de Clínica Médica.Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

  • Leonardo A T Giacon, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

    Médico Pneumologista. Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

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Published

2006-06-30

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2006)

Section

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How to Cite

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Silva GA, Giacon LAT. OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/HYPOPNEA SYNDROME. Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) [Internet]. 2006 Jun. 30 [cited 2024 May 15];39(2):185-94. Available from: https://revistas.usp.br/rmrp/article/view/374