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The obesity hypoventilation syndrome.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Powers, MA
Published in: Respir Care
December 2008

We only need to look around us to see that we are in an epidemic of obesity and obesity-related medical problems. The obesity hypoventilation syndrome is a disorder in which an obese person with normal lungs chronically hypoventilates. Obesity impairs ventilatory mechanics, increases the work of breathing and carbon dioxide production, results in respiratory muscle dysfunction, and reduces ventilatory response to hypercapnia. Sleep-disordered breathing is present in most patients with the obesity hypoventilation syndrome. When noninvasive ventilation can be successfully introduced, hypoventilation can usually be corrected. Weight loss is the desirable long-term treatment for the obesity hypoventilation syndrome. This paper concisely overviews the physiologic factors that lead to the obesity hypoventilation syndrome and discusses therapies for it.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Respir Care

ISSN

0020-1324

Publication Date

December 2008

Volume

53

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1723 / 1730

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Work of Breathing
  • Risk Factors
  • Respiratory System
  • Respiratory Mechanics
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
  • Humans
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Powers, M. A. (2008). The obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Respir Care, 53(12), 1723–1730.
Powers, Mark Anthony. “The obesity hypoventilation syndrome.Respir Care 53, no. 12 (December 2008): 1723–30.
Powers MA. The obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Respir Care. 2008 Dec;53(12):1723–30.
Powers, Mark Anthony. “The obesity hypoventilation syndrome.Respir Care, vol. 53, no. 12, Dec. 2008, pp. 1723–30.
Powers MA. The obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Respir Care. 2008 Dec;53(12):1723–1730.

Published In

Respir Care

ISSN

0020-1324

Publication Date

December 2008

Volume

53

Issue

12

Start / End Page

1723 / 1730

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Work of Breathing
  • Risk Factors
  • Respiratory System
  • Respiratory Mechanics
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
  • Humans
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences