DESCRIBE THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYSOMNOGRAPHY DURING APNEA IN IRAQI PATIENTS

Abstract

This paper aims to Describe the clinical characteristics of polysomnography during apnea in Iraqi patients. Sixty patients were collected from different hospitals in Baghdad, Iraq, where improvements in patients who completed a period of 6 months, 12 months were read.

The 60 patients were divided according to gender, which included 45 male patients and 15 female patients. The study was divided on the basis of the original group Being overweight is a major health risk and a risk factor for all-cause death, as well as cardiovascular disease and cancer, for both men and women of all age groups.And in results, we have identified a relationship between the level of visceral adipose tissue measured by computed tomography and the presence of OSA in obese patients. Their data indicate that accumulation of visceral adipose tissue is an important risk factor for the development of OSA in obese patients and found a statistical relationship in results of study equal to 0.001