Sentences with phrase «hypoventilation syndrome»

«Obesity - related illnesses, particularly obesity hypoventilation syndrome and sleep apnea, may play a role in the development of pulmonary hypertension, and so we examined whether the protective effects of obesity seen in patients with heart failure were also seen in these patients,» said researcher Jose Caceres, MD, of Jacobi Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.