World Sleep Day

World Sleep Day, with its slogan ‘sleep well, stay healthy’, reminds us of the crucial role sleep plays in the health and wellbeing of the individual. It draws attention to an array of respiratory sleep disorders from the annoying and uncomfortable such as simple snoring to the potentially life-threatening such as sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (OSAH).

RS has played a major role in the recognition of sleep apnoea syndrome as an important public health problem and been instrumental in making a priority of raising awareness of sleep and breathing problems and encouraging better funding for research.

“Sleep disordered breathing is now recognised as being a major problem across Europe and the ERS is committed to increase our understanding of the conditions which led to these problems,” stresses Prof. Peter Calverley, Head of the ERS Clinical Physiology and Integrative Biology Assembly