Obstructive sleep apnea without obesity: the beginning of a journey to "NOOSA"?

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Section, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. nagai10m@r6.dion.ne.jp.
² Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chubu University Collage of Life and Health Sciences, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan.
³ Cardiovascular Section, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. Tarun-Dasari@ouhsc.edu.

Editorial

Michiaki Nagai et al. Hypertens Res. 2024 Jul.

. 2024 Jul;47(7):1970-1972.

doi: 10.1038/s41440-024-01669-9. Epub 2024 Apr 12.

¹ Cardiovascular Section, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. nagai10m@r6.dion.ne.jp.
² Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chubu University Collage of Life and Health Sciences, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan.
³ Cardiovascular Section, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. Tarun-Dasari@ouhsc.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Hypertension; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Obstructive sleep apnea.

Comment on

Sleep-related breathing disorder in a Japanese occupational population and its association with hypertension-stratified analysis by obesity status.
Inoue M, Sakata S, Arima H, Yamato I, Oishi E, Ibaraki A, Goto K, Kitazono T. Inoue M, et al. Hypertens Res. 2024 Jun;47(6):1470-1478. doi: 10.1038/s41440-024-01612-y. Epub 2024 Mar 4. Hypertens Res. 2024. PMID: 38438727 Free PMC article.

1. Wilcox I, McNamara SG, Collins FL, Grunstein RR, Sullivan CE. “Syndrome Z”: the interaction of sleep apnoea, vascular risk factors and heart disease. Thorax. 1998;53:S25–28. - PubMed - PMC
1. Chaudhary P, Goyal A, Goel SK, Kumar A, Chaudhary S, Kirti Keshri S, et al. Women with OSA have higher chances of having metabolic syndrome than men: effect of gender on syndrome Z in cross sectional study. Sleep Med. 2021;79:83–7. - DOI - PubMed
1. Kaplan NM. The deadly quartet. Upper-body obesity, glucose intolerance, hypertriglyceridemia, and hypertension. Arch Intern Med. 1989;149:1514–20. - DOI - PubMed
1. Kapur VK, Auckley DH, Chowdhuri S, Kuhlmann DC, Mehra R, Ramar K, et al. Clinical practice guideline for diagnostic testing for adult obstructive sleep apnea: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline. J Clin Sleep Med. 2017;13:479–504. - DOI - PubMed - PMC
1. Koo CY, de la Torre AS, Loo G, Torre MS, Zhang J, Duran-Cantolla J, et al. Effects of ethnicity on the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea in patients with acute coronary syndrome: a pooled analysis of the ISAACC trial and sleep and stent study. Heart Lung Circ. 2017;26:486–94. - DOI - PubMed