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[Prevalence of breathing disorders during sleep in Spain]. 2005

J J Poza-Aldea

Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. jjpoza@chdo.os

Sleep-disordered breathing are frequent processes in Spain. Among them, the obstructive sleep apneas are the best known although not all studies are performed with the same diagnostic criteria with regard to the percentage of apneas and hypopneas per hour of sleep and the need to consider the presence or absence of clinic symptoms. After a reference to the biggest epidemiologic studies performed in different populations, the data of the major populational studies in our environs are analyzed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D012891	Sleep Apnea Syndromes	Disorders characterized by multiple cessations of respirations during sleep that induce partial arousals and interfere with the maintenance of sleep. Sleep apnea syndromes are divided into central (see SLEEP APNEA, CENTRAL), obstructive (see SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE), and mixed central-obstructive types.	Apnea, Sleep,Hypersomnia with Periodic Respiration,Sleep-Disordered Breathing,Mixed Central and Obstructive Sleep Apnea,Sleep Apnea, Mixed,Sleep Apnea, Mixed Central and Obstructive,Sleep Hypopnea,Apnea Syndrome, Sleep,Apnea Syndromes, Sleep,Apneas, Sleep,Breathing, Sleep-Disordered,Hypopnea, Sleep,Hypopneas, Sleep,Mixed Sleep Apnea,Mixed Sleep Apneas,Sleep Apnea,Sleep Apnea Syndrome,Sleep Apneas,Sleep Apneas, Mixed,Sleep Disordered Breathing,Sleep Hypopneas
D013030	Spain	Country located between France on the northeast and Portugal on the west and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The capital is Madrid.	Balearic Islands,Canary Islands
D015995	Prevalence	The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.	Period Prevalence,Point Prevalence,Period Prevalences,Point Prevalences,Prevalence, Period,Prevalence, Point,Prevalences