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Are obese children at risk of sleep disordered breathing?
  1. D Shaw
  1. Clinical Research Fellow, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK; Dominic.Shaw@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

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    ▴ Wing YK, Hui SH, Pak WM, et al. A controlled study of sleep related disordered breathing in obese children. Arch Dis Child2003;88:1043–7
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    This study tested the hypothesis that obese children are at greater risk of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) than children of normal weight, and that the risk is potentiated by pharyngeal tissue enlargement. 46 obese children (mean (SD) age 10.8 (2.3) years; BMI 27.4 (5.1) kg/m2) and 44 sex and age matched …

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