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disease > nutrition disorder > obesity > Pickwickian syndrome
disease > respiratory disease > respiratory failure > alveolar hypoventilation > Pickwickian syndrome
disease > hemopathy > polycythemia > Pickwickian syndrome
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Pickwickian syndrome  

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  • Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (also known as Pickwickian syndrome) is a condition in which severely overweight people fail to breathe rapidly enough or deeply enough, resulting in low blood oxygen levels and high blood carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. (Wikipedia)

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