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In the 1950s some American authors identified a syndrome of chronic alveolar hypoventilation linked to severe obesity. Burwell et al. [1] coined the term “Pickwickian syndrome” after the character of fat Joe created by Charles Dickens in the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. This character presents all the clinical features of the syndrome he epitomizes: severe obesity, marked daytime somnolence, voracious appetite, noisy breathing during sleep and, as the colour of his face suggests, polycythemia.

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Coccagna, G., Cirignotta, F. (1997). Breathing Disorders and Sleep. In: Lugaresi, E., Parmeggiani, P.L. (eds) Somatic and Autonomic Regulation in Sleep. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2275-1_6

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