BARCELONA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ResMed (NYSE: RMD), a pioneer and global leader in sleep and respiratory medicine, today announced results from a major analysis of the German Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) database presented at a Rapid Fire session at the ESC Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Results showed that the three-year mortality of people with sleep apnoea – a prevalent co-morbidity in coronary heart disease (CHD) and heart failure (HF) – was significantly lower in patients who were treated with positive airway pressure (PAP) devices compared to a comparable cohort that received no PAP treatment. Mortality was reduced by 37.9% in patients with CHD (p=0.0002) and by 31.6% in patients with HF (p<0.0001).
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