Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Socio-economic and epidemiological aspects of sleep apnoea
Disease area: Sleep and breathing disorders

Abstract

Background: We asked ourselves the following questions. Does the cooking profession contribute to a higher prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS)? Is the prevalence of the cooking profession abnormally higher in the group of OSAS patients when compared to the prevalence of cooking profession in the Czech population? According to a 2007 report by the Czech Institute of Statistics the prevalence of the cooking profession in the Czech Republic was 1.58%.
Methods: From a group of 486 consecutive patients with OSAS we selected the professional cooks. We used the Chi-square test to measure the difference in prevalence of the cooking profession in the OSAS group against that of the Czech population.
Results: In 486 patients with OSAS 19 (3.91%) were professional cooks, of that 15 males and 4 females, mean age was 55.6 years, mean BMI was 39.6, mean cumulative time with saturation lower than 90% was 64.6 %, mean oxygen desaturation index was 45. The prevalence of professional cooks is significantly higher (p= 0.0001) in the group of OSAS patients.
Conclusion: The profession of cook is significantly higher (p= 0.0001) in the group of OSAS patients (3.91%) when compared with the prevalence of professional cooks in the Czech population (1.58%).

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M. Trefny, A. Grandcourt, A. Dohnalova (Prague, Czech Republic). The cooking profession contributes to a higher prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, 3664

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