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Quick Anonymous Poll - Weight Changes With CPAP and Other Therapy
Please will everybody who is ON CPAP THERAPY OR OTHER for Sleep Apnoea please fill in the poll in light of another new study, resulting in many articles being circulated with titles such as ‘CPAP Cures Sleep Apnoea’ + ’Lose Weight Lose Sleep Apnoea?’ etc – here’s a link to one of these articles http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/lose-weight-sleep-apnea_
It only takes a few seconds to fill it and it ends on 31st March 2014. I will of course post the results after this date. Clicking on the following link will open a new window and take you direct to the quick Anonymous Poll……. Weight With Sleep Apnoea Therapy Poll.
Thank You!
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Permalink Reply by June Ostiadel on
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ok Kath that was easy
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Permalink Reply by Steve Clarke-Keating on
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Oh that article, bless them. I love how the headline and first line go right into the possibility of apnoea being cured.... and then it never gets mentioned again, certainly when they get to talking about the results of the study. Over sensationalised much!
Oh I've done the poll as well :)
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope on
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My thoughts exactly Steve
and one of the reason for doing the quick poll.
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Permalink Reply by Will Clifford on
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I'm 1.5 stone heavier. If only everything in life required so little effort!
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Sorry for the delay, but here are the results of the survey:-
33% of peoples weight remained the same with just CPAP therapy and NO other lifestyle changes.
24% did lose weight WITH lifestyle changes
9% of people also managed to lose weight with CPAP alone and NO lifestyle changes (this happened to me).
Not surprisingly, only just over 1% of people who lost weight managed to cure their Sleep Apnoea (which I strongly suspect is because it was their undiagnosed Sleep Apnoea which actually caused the weight gain - not the other way around). The small percentage who were cured, would have been when weight issues alone were the cause of their Sleep Apnoea.
In the future I will do a more in-depth survey, but this was certainly an interesting short one, and thank you again
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