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Article: ResMed CEO on crusade to treat sleep apnea; medical device company to target new populations.(Chief Executive Officer)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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Five years ago, the term sleep apnea seeped into the layman's vocabulary to describe what one local company bills today as a major public health threat and leading cause of death.
Like a religious crusader, Australia-born Chief Executive Officer Peter Farrell of ResMed Inc. travels the globe in pursuit of spreading the message.
"It's the major cause of hypertension, which is the major cause of stroke and heart failure, which is the major cause of death in this country," said Farrell, whose company makes devices to be worn at night by those who have breathing troubles during sleep.
In obstructive sleep apnea, a sufferer's throat briefly ...