Patient outcomes

There are many positive outcomes for OHS patients being treated with NIV:

• Improved blood gases during the night, which in turn improves them during the day
• Relieved ventilatory muscles¹
• Positive effect on lung function, especially when residual capacity is increased²
• Lower mortality compared to OHS patients not treated with NIV.³

Special considerations

• OHS patients require a high level of medical care, and are more likely to be hospitalized. (8.6 times higher than for general population control subjects)³
• OHS patients have been found to make 11.2 physician visits per year compared to 5.7 visits for obese-only patients. ³
• Effective treatment of OHS has shown a significant reduction in physician fees and a 68.4% decrease in annual hospitalization days. ³