Childhood obesity and respiratory diseases: which link?

E di Palmo, E Filice, A Cavallo, C Caffarelli, G Maltoni… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Prevalence of childhood obesity is progressively increasing, reaching worldwide levels of
5.6% in girls and of 7.8% in boys. Several evidences showed that obesity is a major …

Biomarkers associated with obstructive sleep apnea: a scoping review

GDL Canto, C Pachêco-Pereira, S Aydinoz… - Sleep medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
The overall validity of biomarkers in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) remains
unclear. We conducted a scoping review to provide assessments of biomarkers …

Diagnostic capability of biological markers in assessment of obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis

G De Luca Canto, C Pacheco-Pereira… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - jcsm.aasm.org
Objective: The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the diagnostic value of
biological markers (exhaled breath condensate, blood, salivary and urinary) in the diagnosis …

Association between Red Blood cell distribution width and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

B Di Lorenzo, MC Pau, E Zinellu, AA Mangoni… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although polysomnography is the gold standard method to diagnose obstructive sleep
apnea syndrome (OSAS), there is an ongoing quest for simpler and relatively inexpensive …

The relationship between inflammatory marker levels and pulmonary tuberculosis severity

O Abakay, A Abakay, HS Sen, AC Tanrikulu - Inflammation, 2015 - Springer
We aimed to investigate the correlation between red cell distribution width (RDW), neutrophil
to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and other inflammatory …

The association of hemocyte profile and obstructive sleep apnea

Z Fan, X Lu, H Long, T Li… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The hemocyte profile is one of the most frequently requested clinical laboratory
tests. However, the analysis of blood cell indexes of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients …

The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and its relationship with cardiovascular disease

F Uygur, H Tanriverdi, Z Aktop, F Erboy, B Altinsoy… - Heart & Lung, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR)
and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) severity and whether the NLR predicts …

[HTML][HTML] Hematological indices as simple, inexpensive and practical severity markers of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a meta-analysis

M Wu, L Zhou, D Zhu, T Lai, Z Chen… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Clinical detection of inflammatory markers is useful to assess the degree of
nocturnal hypoxia and predict the presence of complications in obstructive sleep apnea …

Haematologic indices in hepatitis B virus-related liver disease

WL Mao, JP Wu - Clinica Chimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Several markers and prognostic scores have been identified for predicting the development
and progression of liver disease; among them, haematological parameters (the neutrophil to …

Hypoxia and inflammation indicate significant differences in the severity of obstructive sleep apnea within similar apnea-hypopnea index groups

A Yilmaz Avci, S Avci, H Lakadamyali, U Can - Sleep and Breathing, 2017 - Springer
Purpose We determined whether hypoxia parameters are associated with C-reactive protein
(CRP), mean platelet volume (MPV), white matter hyperintensity (WMH), and the severity of …