Metabolic syndrome and sleep disorders in Brazil: a short review

Abstract

The present study analyzed the production on metabolic syndrome and sleep disorders in Brazil in the indexed scientific literature. Keywords such as “ Metabolic Syndrome”, “Cardiometabolic Risk Factors”, and “Sleep Wake Disorders” were used to find relevant research papers in PubMed and LILACS - VHL. Additionally, a table was built with the synthesis of the publications recovered in the two databases to characterize the publications found and an analysis of textual bodies and similarity was carried out, in order to better understand the connections between the terms that emerged from the analyzed abstracts. This short review evidenced that the theme related to metabolic syndrome and sleep disorders in Brazil, based on the search strategies carried out, showed little literature, as well as indicating a high relationship perceived by the mathematical model of co-occurrences between the term “sleep” with “OSA”, “risk factor” and “metabolic syndrome”.