Greetings from Austria, Gruß aus Österreich

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Dear colleagues,
I am the leader of the austrian self helping group for sleep apnea since 2010 and I sleep with mask.
We like to have closer contact to your organisation for exchanging experience.
I am able to communicate in german and english(sorry for no dutch language).
I would be happy to hear more from your ApneuVereniging

regards and greetings from Austria
Josef Hoza
Selbsthilfegruppe Schlafapnoe Österreich
kontakt@schlafapnoe-shg.at
www.schlafapnoe-shg.at

Some pages from your homepage I can read in english - but not all pages offer english translation (same on our homepage, just german)

Liebe Kollegen,
ich leite die Selbsthilfegruppe Schlafapnoe in Österreich seit 2010 und schlafe mit Maske.
Gerne möchte ich/wir näheren Kontakt zu Eurer Organisation zwecks Erfahrungsaustausch.
Sprache kann Deutsch oder Engisch sein. Als Kollege ist mein Name Joe und mich bitte per du ansprechen. Ich bin in Wien zu Hause.
Von einem Schlaflabor-Test/Rapport in Niederland habe ich gelesen - das würde mich besonders interessieren.

Daten aus Österreich:
über 8 Mio Einwohner, ca. 35.000 diagnostizierte Schlafapnoe Betroffene, ca. 50 Schlaflabore.

Liebe Grüße aus Österreich
Josef Hoza
Obmann der Selbsthilfegruppe Schlafapnoe Österreich
kontakt@schlafapnoe-shg.at
www.schlafapnoe-shg.at

Re: Greetings from Austria, Gruß aus Österreich

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Welcome Josef by our Apnea Forum in the Netherlands.

Our Dutch Apnea association have almost 8000 members and is 26 years old. The Apnea Forum have 6255 members since december 2002.

Our Facebook account of the Apnea association had 2227 members since 2015. Also we have a Twitter account.

In the Netherlands we have a population of 17 million, we knew that about 200.000 People have sleep-apnea.

About 175.000 used a cpap and 25.000 used a MRA.

Every two years we held an investigation under 80 sleep clinicals and every two years we held an investigation under about 5.000 sleep-apnea patients.

We expect to have 600.000 People with sleep-apnea in the Netherlands.

As Apnea association we informed and discussed with doctors and clinicals.

I will give you more information by sending you a mail.

Kind Regards

Ruud Hondema
Moderator
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Re: Greetings from Austria, Gruß aus Österreich

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Hi Joseph, welcome and I hope that Google Translate will help you figure out what's written here, because there is a lot.
Consider giving the Apneuvereniging a call or emailing directly with them. They do so much, like the annual questionnaire (one year it's sent to newly diagnosed patients, the next year to sleep clinics).
Looking at the figures you present here, it seems that sleep apnea is still awfully underdiagnosed in Austria. So I figure that there's a lot of work to be done to bring more attention to this condition and the very various forms in which it manifests. Not just with the general population, but also with specialists and family doctors.
The apneuvereniging here does all that, works closely with medics, gives us patients a voice in the field and raises awareness.

All the best!
Linda