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This study was designed to compare the clinical and polysomnographic data between obese and nonobese patients with OSA.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This was a retrospective study that included all the patients diagnosed as between November 2013 and December 2014. The patients were classified into nonobese (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 23) and obese (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 72) groups if their body mass index (BMI) was &lt;27.5 and \u226527.5, respectively. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software program, version 20.0 (SPSS, Chicago, Illinois). A value of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.05 was considered statistically significant.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      There were 95 patients of OSA, of which 23 (44.4%) were nonobese and 72 (75.78%) were obese with a mean BMI of 24.37 \u00b1 3.09 and 34.27 \u00b1 8.34 kg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      , respectively. Characteristics, such as male predominance, higher BMI, neck circumference, and loud snoring, were significantly higher in obese group (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.05) as compared to nonobese. Mild OSA (AHI 5-15) was significantly higher in nonobese patients (39.13% vs. 5.55%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.00001), whereas severe OSA (AHI &gt;30) was higher in obese patients as compared with nonobese (66.66% vs. 30.43%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.002). When comparing comorbidities, the hypertension was significantly higher in the obese (47.22% vs. 13.04%,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.003) than the nonobese patients. The incidence of diabetes (37.50% vs. 17.39%) and hypothyroidism (16.66% vs. 4.34%) was also higher in obese group as compared with nonobese. No significant difference was found for mean age, racial origin (Asian\/African), and ESS score between obese and nonobese patients.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Obstructive sleep apnoea is not restricted to only obese individual; rather it also occurs in nonobese. The severity of OSA in nonobese has generally less as compared with obese and its early identification required high index of suspicion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_56_20","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,1]],"date-time":"2020-09-01T05:57:47Z","timestamp":1598939867000},"page":"4170-4173","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Comparison of clinical and polysomnographic parameters between obese and nonobese obstructive sleep apnea"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Prashant","family":"Kumar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ruban Hospital, Patna, Bihar, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Deependra K.","family":"Rai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M. 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