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This study aimed to assess the number of study participants at risk of developing OSA and to assess and quantify the risk factors associated with this disorder. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in an NCD clinic of a rural health training center, Karikalampakkam, Puducherry of South India from August 2018 to October 2018. A Modified Berlin Questionnaire (MBQ) was used to screen the study participants at risk for OSA. Four-hundred-and-seventy-three people aged 18 years and above were included in the study, using systematic random sampling. Respondents\u2019 socio-demographic and morbidity characteristics, as well as clinical and anthropometric parameters including body weight, height, blood pressure, neck, hip and waist circumference were collected. Data was captured using Epicollect5 and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Results: One-fourth (25.8%) of the respondents were at high risk of developing OSA. In terms of gender, 27.9% of the men and 23.8% of the women were at high risk for OSA. In univariate analyses, the risk of developing OSA was significantly associated with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia and gastro-esophageal reflux disease, weight, body mass index, neck, waist and hip circumference, waist\u2013hip ratio, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that a history of dyslipidemia (aOR, 95% CI = 2.34, 1.22\u20134.48), body mass index (aOR, 95% CI = 1.15, 1.06\u20131.22) and waist circumference (aOR, 95% CI = 1.10, 1.07\u20131.14) emerged as significant predictors of risk for OSA. Conclusions: A considerable proportion of NCD patients with easily detectable attributes are at risk of developing OSA, but still remain undiagnosed at a primary health care setting. The results obtained using MBQ in this study were comparable to studies performed using polysomnography. Dyslipidemia, body mass index and waist circumference were independent risk factors for predicting a risk of developing OSA. Prospective studies are needed to confirm whether a reduction in these risk factors could reduce the risk for OSA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina55070391","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,22]],"date-time":"2019-07-22T02:55:37Z","timestamp":1563764137000},"page":"391","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Magnitude and Determinants of Patients at Risk of Developing Obstructive Sleep Apnea in a Non-Communicable Disease Clinic"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"55","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2159-1247","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Prakash","family":"Mathiyalagen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College &amp; Research Institute, Kathirkamam, Vazhudavur Road, Puducherry 605010, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Venkatesh","family":"Govindasamy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Medicine, Government Thiruvannamalai Medical College &amp; Hospital, Thiruvannamalai 606604, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anandaraj","family":"Rajagopal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College &amp; Research Institute, Kathirkamam, Vazhudavur Road, Puducherry 605010, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kavita","family":"Vasudevan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College &amp; Research Institute, Kathirkamam, Vazhudavur Road, Puducherry 605010, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kalaipriya","family":"Gunasekaran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College &amp; Research Institute, Kathirkamam, Vazhudavur Road, Puducherry 605010, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4047-7236","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dhananjay","family":"Yadav","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"273","DOI":"10.1177\/2040622315590318","article-title":"Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and its management","volume":"6","author":"Spicuzza","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ther. 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