The prevalence of risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common medical disorder and Type 2 Dia-
betes mellitus (T2DM) is an endocrine disorder where both of them commonly

coexist. T2DM will disturb sleep patterns and disturbed sleep may predis-
pose to insulin resistance resulting in T2DM. The study aim is to evaluate the

prevalence of risk for Obstructive sleep apnea among T2DM patients based onpatient demographic variables (age, gender and Body Mass Index (BMI)) andBerlin Questionnaire (BQ). In this cross-sectional study a total of 111 patientswere included and the prevalence of risk was determined based on the BQcategories and the percentage was calculated accordingly. In BQ, Category 1includes βive questions based on snoring, category 2 includes three questionsbased on daytime somnolence and category 3 includes two questions based on