News India Live, Digital Desk: A new major study on Sunday claimed that rising temperatures increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The study published in the ATS 2025 International Conference ‘also found that under the most potential climate change landscapes, the social burden of OSA is expected to double in most countries over the next 75 years.
Researchers stated that in addition to highlighting the important importance of limiting global temperature growth, the findings also emphasize the immediate need for strategies to reduce the health and economic effects of the OSA, as it is becoming more common and serious.
FHMRI at Flinders University: Sleep Health Senior Research Fellow Bustian Lachat said, “This study really highlights the social burden associated with the increase in the spread of OSA due to rising temperatures.”
The previous cross-sectional studies have identified the relationship between the environment temperature and the severity of the OSA. However, this is the first study to explain and describe that relationship in detail.
For the study, researchers analyzed the consumer database of more than 116,000 users of the certified under-Matress sensor to estimate the severity of OSA.
The dataset consisted of approximately 500 repeated measurements per user. The researchers then analyzed this data based on the 24 -hour environment temperature extracted from the climate model.
Overall, a person sleeping at a night increases the chances of experience of OSA in a night due to high temperatures.
However, these conclusions were different according to the region, the OSA when the temperature rises in European countries. The rate was seen more than Australia and the United States.
Dr. Lachat said, “We were surprised by the prevalence of the relationship between the environment temperature and the severity of the OSA.”
The researchers then attempted to guess how heavy the increase in the spread of OSA, the welfare of society and economic losses due to rising temperatures.
He conducted modeling including disability-passage-life-year, productivity loss and health economics to estimate the OSA burden under several climate scenarios.
They found that if the temperature increases by 2 ° C or more, the burden of OSA by the year 2100 will increase from 1.5 times to 3 times. He estimated that climate change has increased the burden of OSA from 50 percent to 100 percent since 2000.
In addition to providing more evidence about the major threats of climate change for human health and welfare, Dr. Lachat said that the study has highlighted the importance of developing effective intervention for diagnosis and management of OSA.
He said, “The high circulation of OSA without diagnosis and without treatment enhances the impact of global warming on the social burden associated with OSA.” “The high rate of diagnosis and treatment is likely to reduce the burden on health and productivity due to rising temperature and increasing proliferation of OSA.
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