2019/12/01 by Pietro Ferrara, Giovanna C. Fabrizio, Giovanna Carmela Fabrizio +9
Medicine · Psychology · #Body mass index #Demography #Enuresis #Internal medicine #Logistic regression #Medicine #Nocturnal #Obesity #Observational study #Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research #Obstructive sleep apnea #Overweight #Pediatrics #Sleep (system call) #Sleep and related disorders #Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
paper · doi:10.23736/s0026-4946.16.04497-2
crossref issued 2019/12/01 · crossref published 2019/12/01 · crossref published-print 2019/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2019/12/01 · crossref created 2019/12/16 · crossref deposited 2019/12/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/08/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the rate of nocturnal enuresis (NE), body weight and obstructive sleep apnea in children 5 to 10 years of age in South Italy and the possible association among these disorders. METHODS: We have administered 1100 validated questionnaires, in Italian language, to parents and we have analyzed data with a logistic regression. RESULTS: Forty-two percent of children had a BMI≥85th (group 1) vs 58.0% normal weight children at the same age (group 2). There is a higher number of overweight males compared to females without statistically differences. In group 1 there was a higher number of children with NE and obstructive sleep disorders and some children present with the association among these three disorders. CONCLUSIONS: There are no statistically differences between two study groups for the association body weight-NE, body weight-NE-obstructive sleep disorders.