Increased Prevalence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Adults

Sleep-disordered breathing is a common disorder with a range of harmful sequelae. Obesity is a strong causal factor for sleep-disordered breathing, and because of the ongoing obesity epidemic, previous estimates of sleep-disordered breathing prevalence require updating. We estimated the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the United States for the periods of 1988-1994 and 2007-2010 using data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, an ongoing community-based study that was established in 1988 with participants randomly selected from an employed population of Wisconsin adults. A total of 1,520 participants who were 30-70 years of age had baseline polysomnography studies to assess the presence of…

• UO
  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Award: 1UL1RR025011
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: 1UL1RR025011, 1R01AG036838, R01AG14124, R01HL62252
• SO
  School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• NH
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

  Award: R01HL62252
• NC
  National Center for Research Resources

  Award: 1UL1RR025011