Annual incidence of obstructive sleep apnoea treated in secondary care, Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district, 2019

564 per 100 000

new cases per 10,000 people per year, Finland (Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district)

“The annual incidence of OSA increased from 99 per 100 000 to 564 per 100 000 (+470 %) during 2005-2019.”

Peuranheimo et al., Increasing incidence and burden of obstructive sleep apnoea in the Finnish population: a cohort study from 2005 to 2019 (Respiratory Medicine 2025), abstract, 2025-05

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Peer-reviewed study

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2026-11-06

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What to know

One hospital district's secondary-care diagnoses (2019 is the last year), not a national figure; diagnosed incidence varies widely with testing capacity, compare England's 91.04 per 100,000 in the same year.

Arithmetic

564 per 100,000 is 56.4 per 10,000 (divided by 10).

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