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Sleep Apnea: The Market Behind the Mask

Sleep is getting a lot of attention in the clinical community these days, and in particular, interrupted sleep. The obstructive sleep apnea market for treatment, monitoring and diagnostic products is forecast to grow at an almost 13% compound annual growth rate through the year 2010 based on only incremental changes to existing diagnostic and treatment modalities, according to "US Markets for Blood Gas/Electrolyte Monitoring, Pulmonary Function Assessment, and Sleep Apnea Management Products," published in December 2005 by Medtech Insight. But the field is beginning to see an influx of new kinds of treatments from both the medical device and pharmaceutical industries as well.

Sleep is getting a lot of attention in the clinical community these days, and in particular, interrupted sleep. Two studies recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrated that patients with of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have a heightened risk of suffering cardiovascular events. A study published in the March 24, 2005 issue of the NEJM indicated that patients with OSA are more likely to die from sudden cardiac causes between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am than the general population. A different observational study of 1,022 patients and conducted by the Yale Center for Sleep Medicine indicated that patients with OSA had a greater than two-fold risk of stroke or death from any cause compared with the control patients. (That study was published in the November 10, 2005 issue of the NEJM).

As the clinical community increasingly shines the flashlight on OSA, the market for treatment, monitoring and diagnostic products is forecast...

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