Arzt, Michael
Schoebel, Christoph
Galetke, Wolfgang
Woehrle, Holger
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Article History
Accepted: 18 June 2025
First Online: 16 September 2025
Declarations
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: The Somnexus Group is an academic–industrial collaboration involving employees of Inspire Medical Systems and scientists from the fields of sleep and respiratory medicine. The Somnexus Group includes the authors M. Arzt, C. Schoebel, W. Galetke, and H. Woehrle as well as Benedikt Hofauer (University of Innsbruck), Thilo Tübler (Inspire Medical Systems), and Christian Stahl (Inspire Medical Systems). M. Arzt has received research support from ResMed, the ResMed Foundation, Philips Respironics, the Else Kröhner-Fresenisus Foundation, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as well as lecture and/or consulting fees from Inspire Medical Systems, ResMed, Philips Respironics, and Zoll Respicardia. C. Schöbel has received research support from Astra Zeneca, ResMed, and Bayer; consulting fees from Inspire Medical Systems, ResMed, Idorsia, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Astra Zeneca; and honoraria/lecture fees from Berlin Chemie, Takeda, and Mementor; he also serves as Honorary Treasurer of the German Sleep Society, Head of the Telemedicine Working Group of the German Society of Internal Medicine, and Treasurer of the Sleep Apnea Working Group of the German Cardiac Society. W. Galetke received research support from Bayer, Onera, ResMed, and MEDICARE as well as honoraria/lecture fees from Inspire Medical System GmbH, Philips Respironics, Löwenstein Medical, and ResMed. H. Woehrle has received honoraria from Astra Zeneca, Allergopharma, Bioprojet, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GSK, Novartis, Inspire Medical System GmbH, Jazz, ResMed, Sanofi, and Teva and research funding from ResMed and Novartis. The creation of the illustrations and the graphic design of the questionnaire were financially supported by Inspire Medical System GmbH.
: For this article no studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors. All studies mentioned were in accordance with the ethical standards indicated in each case.