1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Evercare Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2 Biotechnology Program, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
3 Department of Gynecology and Obstestrics, Dhaka Central International Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
4 Department of Material Science and Nanotechnology, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Kadir Has University, Istanbul Turkey.
Received on 27 May 2024; revised on 04 July 2024; accepted on 07 July 2024
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and it enhances mortality worldwide. The global burden due to OSA is gruesome and non-negligible. In this study, we aimed to provide data on the basic demography of OSA in a tertiary hospital to create awareness and provide a guideline for assessing OSA in Bangladesh. The demographic and clinical profile of 533 obstructive sleep apnea patients in Bangladesh was a retrospective observational study precisely to say retrospective cohort study was done in the Department of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine at Evercare Hospitals, Dhaka, Bangladesh among admitted patients for a sleep study from October 2021 to September 2023 for 2 years. In this retrospective cohort study, we included a total of 533 patients. Among them were 372 males (70%) and 161 females (30%). Risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea are increasing age, male sex, and obesity on the scale of BMI.
Sleep; Apnea; Hypopnea; Risk factor; Cohort
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SM Abdullah Al Mamun, Munima Haque, Saika Shaheed, Wahid E Sanam Tisa, Shah Faisal and Saliha Khalid. The pattern and distribution of obstructive sleep apnea in Dhaka city population. World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2024, 19(01), 078–085. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjbphs.2024.19.1.0401