Increased prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in adults.

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Validation of the STOP-Bang Questionnaire as a Screening Tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea among Different Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2015, background): “Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent sleep breathing disorder affecting 9–25% of the general adult population.[1] It is associated with cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic disorders and impaired neurocognitive function.”
A Novel Algorithm for the Automatic Detection of Sleep Apnea From Single-Lead ECG (2015, background): “S LEEP apnea is a sleep-related breathing disorder that affects about 10% of middle aged adults [1].”
Estimation of the global prevalence and burden of obstructive sleep apnoea: a literature-based analysis (2019, background): “The prevalence estimate of obstructive sleep apnoea was treated as the dependent variable; BMI and proportion of the white population were treated as continuous independent variables, continent was treated as a categorical independent variable, and an over-dispersion factor was added to the model to”
Obstructive sleep apnea: a cardiometabolic risk in obesity and the metabolic syndrome. (2013, background): “Current prevalence of OSA pointed that one third of the sleep studies showed some degree of OSA (apnea-hypopnea index ≥5 events per hour of sleep) (2).”