Researchers have identified obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) in a small but clinically relevant number of patients who ...

Experiencing shortness of breath when walking even short distances can be concerning. While deconditioning or anxiety can ...

A man who struggled with morbid obesity died after refusing medical treatment for an infected sore. Nickolas Robert Holbrook, from Cardiff, was 53 years old when he succumbed to sepsis that developed ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) frequently live well into adulthood. Advances in treatment have significantly increased the life expectancy for this condition. The median life expectancy ...

Pickwickian syndrome, also called obesity hypoventilation syndrome, happens when you're obese and have low oxygen levels in your blood combined with high levels of carbon dioxide (called Obesity ...

IN the normal subject, an increment in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (Pco 2) in arterial blood of only a few millimeters of mercury suffices to double or even triple minute and alveolar ...

I have some pre existing health issues (FM, chronic costochondritis, CFS) and did a lot this weekend, so I’ve been in a lot of widespread pain. Today after going down the stairs, which have been ...

In 13 patients, free of cardiopulmonary disease, who had been subjected to hyperventilation for an average of two and three-quarters hours during anesthesia and operation, spontaneous breathing began ...

In patients with NSTEMI, OHS was associated with higher mortality, cardiac arrest, AKI, renal replacement therapy, and respiratory failure requiring intubation. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) ...