Diabetes and OSA, OSA and Diabetes

The following is an exerpt from a recent Nationa Sleep Foundation alert. Is this a condition you consider in your patients?

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention has published a consensus statement in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice on the close link between type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). According to the statement:
Up to 40 percent of people with OSA will have diabetes.
Among diabetes patients, the prevalence of some form of sleep disordered breathing (e.g., snoring) may be as high as 58 percent.
The link between OSA and diabetes may be independent of overweight/obese status.