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Response letter: Effect of multidisciplinary weight loss interventions on obstructive sleep apnea in youth with obesity. Need for more clinical trials

International Journal of Obesity volume 44, pages 1539–1540 (2020)Cite this article

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Our research group recently wrote and published a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the effects of multidisciplinary weight loss interventions on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in youth with obesity [1]. Our analysis led us to conclude that such multidisciplinary weight loss programs have beneficial effects on OSA severity and sleep duration in this population. In their recent comment, Carneiro-Barrera et al. detail some methodological limitations they observed in our approach, particularly pointing the inclusion within our meta-analysis of studies conducted by the same groups and presenting results from similar participants [2].

First, we would like to thank Carneiro-Barrera et al. for their constructive comment that unfortunately concerns a quite large number of published meta-analyses. Although we agree with the comments from Carneiro-Barrera et al. concerning the fact that some data from our meta-analysis work may overlap, we would like to highlight that this limitation was explicitly and conscientiously mentioned several times in the manuscript; in the limitation section as well as in the conclusion. This specific limitation led us to call for further clinical trials appropriately investigating the effect of multidisciplinary weight loss programs on OSA in this population.

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  1. Roche J, Isacco L, Masurier J, Pereira B, Mougin F, Chaput J-P, et al. Are obstructive sleep apnea and sleep improved in response to multidisciplinary weight loss interventions in youth with obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Obes. 2020;44:753–70.

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  2. Carneiro-Barrera A, Amaro-Gahete FJ, Buela-Casal G. Selecting studies (not reports) as the unit of interest of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: an essential practice. Int J Obes. 2020.

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  1. Laboratory of the Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise under Physiological and Pathological Conditions (AME2P), EA3533, Clermont Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Johanna Roche & David Thivel

  2. EA3920, Exercise Performance Health Innovation Platform, University of Franche-Comte, Besançon, France

    Johanna Roche, Laurie Isacco & Fabienne Mougin

  3. Wits Sleep Laboratory, Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Johanna Roche

  4. UGECAM Nutrition Obesity Ambulatory Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Julie Masurier

  5. Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital, Biostatistics Unit (DRCI), Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Bruno Pereira

  6. Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Jean-Philippe Chaput

  7. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Jean-Philippe Chaput

  8. Auvergne Research Center for Human Nutrition (CRNH), Clermont-Ferrand, France

    David Thivel

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Roche, J., Isacco, L., Masurier, J. et al. Response letter: Effect of multidisciplinary weight loss interventions on obstructive sleep apnea in youth with obesity. Need for more clinical trials. Int J Obes 44, 1539–1540 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-020-0594-7

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