Haemodialysis patients with sleep apnoea syndrome experience increased central adiposity and altered muscular composition and functionality

• Published in: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 336 - 344
• Main Authors: Sakkas, Giorgos K., Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I., Karatzaferi, Christina, Liakopoulos, Vassilios, Maridaki, Maria D., Pastaka, Chaido, Lavdas, Eleftherios, Soher, Brian J., Dovas, Spiros, Fezoulidis, Ioannis, Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M., Stefanidis, Ioannis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.01.2008; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Abdominal Fat; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management; fat infiltration; Female; Glomerulonephritis; haemodialysis; Humans; Intensive care medicine; lean body mass (LBM); Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; muscle functional capacity; Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology; Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases; Nephropathies. Renovascular diseases. Renal failure; obstructive sleep apnoea–hypopnoea syndrome; Renal Dialysis - adverse effects; Sleep Apnea Syndromes - etiology; Sleep Apnea Syndromes - pathology; Sleep Apnea Syndromes - physiopathology; visceral adipose tissue; haemodialysis; muscle functional capacity; fat infiltration; obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome; lean body mass (LBM); visceral adipose tissue; Kidney disease; Human; Urinary system disease; Adipose tissue; Hemodialysis; Functional capacity; Extrarenal dialysis; Sleep; Renal failure; Lean body mass; Infiltration

Background. Sleep apnoea frequently affects patients with end-stage renal disease. However, it is still unclear whether or to what extent sleep disorders may affect functional capacity and quality of life in haemodialysis patients. We tested the hypothesis that apneic dialysis patients due to the la...