Major neuromuscular and skeletal disorders that can provoke sleep hypoventilation
| Neuromuscular diseases | Skeletal chest wall diseases |
| Guillain-Barré syndrome | Kyphoscoliosis |
| Myasthenia gravis | Ankylosing spondylitis |
| Poliomyelitis | |
| Post-polio syndrome | |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |
| Cervical or thoracic spinal cord injury | |
| Polymyositis | |
| Muscular dystrophies |