The interaction of obesity and craniofacial deformity in obstructive sleep apnea.

CONCLUSIONS: Obesity and skeletal malformations were both etiological factors of OSA, but obesity seemed to have a greater influence on AHI severity in all kinds of obese and thin OSA patients. Only in normal-weight group, it was affected by both cephalometric variables and BMI. PMID: 33119994 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Dentomaxillofacial Radiology - Category: Radiology Tags: Dentomaxillofac Radiol Source Type: research