In the news: Dr Sarah Appleton and her research on OSA and heart disease

September 13, 2018

An article about Dr Sarah Appleton’s research on Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and links with heart disease appeared in The Advertiser on Monday 10 September. “Sleep problems cost Australia up to $66 billion annually, and $6 billion of this is directed to obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a disorder characterised by snoring and repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep…Dr Appleton and her team [The Health Observatory, Basil Hetzel Institute and The University of Adelaide] are in the process of determining if a delayed OSA diagnosis and impact of treatment is linked to the development of heart disease and other conditions in Adelaide men… Now, with funding from The Hospital Research Foundation, researchers will be able to follow these men up and repeat the study to determine the characteristics of men who have severe OSA now but had no or only mild OSA five to 10 years ago.” (full article – online subscriber only content: https://bit.ly/2MkUQLa).

Main photo: Professor Robert Adams and Dr Sarah Appleton at the Basil Hetzel Institute, TQEH

 

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