… In order to clarify the important determinants of long-term compliance with CPAP therapy, we
… long-term compliance with CPAP therapy from baseline data and from computed CPAP use …

… of CPAP use was 5.7 :':: 1.8 hours/day in OSA patients and 5.6 :':: 1.4 hours/day in snorers
who were still on CPAP … This study shows that CPAP therapy is reasonably accepted by OSA …

… we used nasal CPAP in nonapneic snorers only after we could be sure from our experience
with OSA patients that there were no major side-effects with long-term CPAP treatment. …

… effective, this treatment suffers from poor long-term … treatment failure and long-term compliance.
Four hundred subsequent patients diagnosed with OSA and qualified for CPAP treatment …

… used nasal CPAP nightly. One compliant patient did not use CPAP on weekends and two
patients used CPAP … Therefore, all compliant patients used nasal CPAP at least four of seven …

… In conclusion, the long-term compliance of nCPAP therapy has increased only slightly since
the introduction of nCPAP 25 years ago, in spite of many efforts to improve it. It seems that a …

… all patients find this therapy ideal and many do not use it as … from CPAP therapy, the data
on patient use of CPAP therapy, … CPAP is an obtrusive form of long term therapy and thus one …

… of CPAP are particularly important. The aims of this study were to examine long-term use of
CPAP in … This study compared long-term use of CPAP between sleepy and nonsleepy OSA …

… the second uses CPAP only 2 h per night for the first 1 1/2 mo and then for 6 h over the next
1 1/2 mo. Average nightly use … In conclusion, long-term CPAP therapy can lead to significant …

… to CPAP except for extremely and morbidly obese persons. Future studies focused on
long-term … ' preferences for treatment are required for the comparisons between CPAP and MAS …