More scary research on APNEA

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Re: More scary research on APNEA

Post by jaye8898 » Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:49 pm

WindyCityEsq wrote:I received an email from the author of this article. Here is what he writes: (copy/paste job)

Hi Christina



These are people who lived in the Western Australian town of Busselton in 1990. So they weren’t in the study because they had already been diagnosed with OSA. So the cohort is made up of people who both did and did not have OSA. The people who tested positive to OSA were sent a letter once the sleep studies were scored telling them that they had OSA and should probably get treatment for their condition. Our third author Dr Cullen even set up a sleep clinic service in Bunbury (the town next door) to help people get treated. But none of the participants ever presented to him. So we think that the people with moderate-sever OSA in this study had probably not ever been treated with CPAP.



I hope that answered your questions?



Kind Regards

Nat Marshall
Thank you! Interesting and less worrisome than it could have been!8)

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