Obstructive sleep apnea is predictive of worse hospital outcomes in hospitalizations with acute pancreatitis in obese patients

Obesity is associated with severity and increased mortality in acute pancreatitis [ [1] Martinez J. Johnson C.D. Sanchez-Paya J. de Madaria E. Robles-Diaz G. Perez-Mateo M. Obesity is a definitive risk factor of severity and mortality in acute pancreatitis: an updated meta-analysis. Pancreatology. 2006; 6: 206-209 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (236) Google Scholar ]. But little is known on the impact of additional presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on acute pancreatitis course in obese patients. We thus aimed to test the hypothesis that OSA independently predicts worse hospital outcomes in acute pancreatitis in obese patients.