Sleep apnea:

a condition too important

not to understand
Despite its prevalence, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
is not well understood – even among those who have
the condition.
The OSA risk factor most Only 53% recognize OSA can
often identified is being be tied to serious conditions
overweight/ obese, but such as high blood pressure,
only about half of those diabetes, asthma, heart
with OSA selected it (51%) disease, and strokes³

Even when aided, survey participants were not able to

1 billion consistently identify risk factors for OSA.
people have obstructive
sleep apnea (OSA)¹, but 80% Only 47% recognize Only 25% of people believe that
overweight/obesity anyone can get OSA.
of moderate and severe as a risk factor
OSA cases go undiagnosed².

Common Coming into the know

misunderstandings It’s time to start understanding how to
identify the warning signs of OSA:
30%
of people with
sleep apnea believe
it’s not necessary
to be treated. 33%
of sleep apnea patients noticed their quality of sleep was poor

Only 36%
of sleep apnea 27%
patients use CPAP at were told by their partner/spouse that they stopped
least once a week. breathing at night

17% 24%
were told their snoring disturbed their
of sleep apnea
partner/spouse
patients who have
been prescribed
CPAP do not use it. To help understand sleep issues, use the
SmartSleep Analyzer tool to assess your sleep
Yet, if used properly, CPAP therapy quality and receive personalized feedback,
is highly effective at treating OSA⁴. valuable insights, and recommendations.

Being in the know

According to those who have been diagnosed with OSA and use CPAP therapy³:

68% 75% 71% 71% 75%

say it was easy would recommend say the benefits say that their would recommend
to adjust to using it to others outweigh the sleep has improved CPAP therapy for
CPAP therapy inconvenience since starting someone with OSA
CPAP therapy

For expert tips on ways to improve sleep, click here. To see more findings from this
year’s World Sleep Day survey, please visit: Philips.com/WorldSleepDay.
1 .OSA may affect nearly 1 billion adults worldwide, Healio Pulmonology 3 Indicates net “somewhat” or “complete” agreement with the statement
2 Sleep Apnea Information For Clinicians, sleepapnea.org 4 From CPAP To Tailored Therapy For Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine