Screening for obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population in Iceland and uptake of positive airway pressure treatment: a prospective cohort study
Elin Helga Thorarinsdottir, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Thor Aspelund, Hjordis Sigrun Palsdottir, Sesselja Hreggvidsdottir, Tryggvi Leo Gudmundsson, Ali Reza Matin, Bjorg Eysteinsdottir, Christer Janson, Eva Lindberg, James Potts, Andre FS Amaral, Thorarinn Gislason · 2026
Read Screening for obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population in Iceland and uptake of positive airway pressure treatment: a prospective cohort study by Elin Helga Thorarinsdottir, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Thor Aspelund, Hjordis Sigrun Palsdottir, Sesselja Hreggvidsdottir, Tryggvi Leo Gudmundsson, Ali Reza Matin, Bjorg Eysteinsdottir, Christer Janson, Eva Lindberg, James Potts, Andre FS Amaral, Thorarinn Gislason (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13548229.txt.
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Elin Helga Thorarinsdottir and co-authors screen a whole population for sleep apnea in a 2026 Icelandic study. Three hundred seventy-eight adults aged fifty-four to ninety-one were invited from a general cohort. Three hundred thirty-four completed a home sleep test of good quality.
Nearly forty percent met the threshold for moderate-to-severe apnea. Most attended follow-up, and three quarters of those were referred for air pressure therapy. Two years on, about half of referred patients still used the therapy, and under half of users met strict adherence marks. Readers get real-world uptake numbers for population screening.
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| CREATOR | Elin Helga Thorarinsdottir, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Thor Aspelund, Hjordis Sigrun Palsdottir, Sesselja Hreggvidsdottir, Tryggvi Leo Gudmundsson, Ali Reza Matin, Bjorg Eysteinsdottir, Christer Janson, Eva Lindberg, James Potts, Andre FS Amaral, Thorarinn Gislason |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |