Sleep apnea awareness among Latin-Americans

We have read the original article entitled: "Awareness and knowledge of obstructive sleep apnea among the general population" by Ching-Hui Sia, and co-investigators (1). In this noteworthy paper, the authors conducted a telephone survey to assess current awareness, knowledge, and attitudes towards OSA in the Singapore community. We have previously explored the same topic in the Latin American population (2); in our study, we defined awareness as a function of perception and knowledge. Perception was measured with a visual scale assessing the degree of agreement to three different statements implying the importance of the disease.

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