Abstract: Background: Obstructive sleep apnea is referred to as sleep disordered breathing due to complete or partial obstruction of upper respiratory tract while sleeping by the abnormal relaxation of throat muscles lying posteriorly. The prognosis of the disease worsens in pregnancy as the airway obstruction varies due to various hormonal and physiological changes associated with pregnancy therefore causing deterioration of the quality of sleep and snoring.The purpose of this article was to give a review of the literature on the obstructed sleep apnea in pregnant women. Methods: Review of articles including the case series, case reports, retrospective case control study, various clinical trials and RCTs available on pubmed, sci-hub and medline database within the range of past 10 years has been performed for better analysis excluding the articles which were not including the specifications regarding OSA in pregnancy..........
Keywords Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), pregnant women, obese, preterm, gestational diabetes, insulin resistance, pre-eclampsia, berlin questionnaire, Screening questionnaire, Stop-Bang questionnaire, hypertension, snoring, oxidative stress, sleep disordered breathing (SDB).
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