ABSTRACT

Burden of sleep disorders is a worldwide phenomenon. The most common and clinically relevant sleep complaints are insomnia, sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome and excessive daytime sleepiness. These have been extensively studied mainly in western population. However, their prevalence and clinical characteristics in Hispanics residents of USA or population resident in Latin America is significantly less known. Besides a common ethnical origin, these populations share cultural characteristics, experience socioeconomic disparities and poor medical coverage yielding a health disadvantage. Urban migration and an acculturation process with a growing prevalence of obesity and sleep disorders could be a result of this process. In this review, these populations are characterized and we analyzed their clinical and epidemiological known differences regarding sleep complains with an emphasis on sleep apnea.

KEYWORDS

Sleep disorders, sleep breathing disorders, sleep apnea, ethnicity, Hispanics, Latin America.

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