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Quality of life measurement in sleep apnoea
Measuring quality of life in patients with sleep apnoea: whose life is it anyway?
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Correspondence to:
Dr W W Flemons
Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 2T9; flemons@ucalgary.ca
A new self-administered disease specific questionnaire for sleep apnoea
Keywords: obstructive sleep apnoea; quality of life; questionnaire; Quebec Sleep Questionnaire
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Patients suspected of suffering from sleep apnoea present to primary care physicians with several typical symptoms including habitual snoring (often disruptive to bed partners), waking feeling unrefreshed, daytime sleepiness, or fatigue. The disorder is increasingly being recognised in patients who are hypertensive, obese, or who have unexplained respiratory failure. Randomised placebo controlled trials have proved that sleep apnoea has an adverse impact on mood, quality of life, functional status, and vigilance, and that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) results in statistically significant improvements. Although sleep apnoea is strongly suspected to be a risk factor for developing systemic hypertension, and some preliminary evidence suggests that it is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, there is no convincing evidence yet that CPAP reduces these risks.1 In most patients treatment is therefore primarily aimed at improving their quality of life.
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