ABSTRACT
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) despite being the most common type of sleep disorder, may presenta myriad of clinical features, ranging from simple fatigue and lack of concentration to per-sonality changes andheart diseases. The association between the genetic, physiological built, so-cial status, and behaviour plays themajor role in disease risk factors diagnosis and management plans. The most often used treatment method of OSAis Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) aimed at monitoring respiratory effort and Apnea-HypopneaIndex (AHI) measuring the number of apnea and hypopnea events per hour of sleep or the RespiratoryDisturbance Index (RDI). Objective: The focus of this paper is providing a review on obstructive sleep apnea,different treatment ap-proaches and the recent perspectives with regard to family physicians’ enrolment inmanagement and modulation of pain in OSA patients. Methodology: PubMed database was used for articlesselection using the keywords obstructive sleep apnea, its evaluation, management, and diagnosis. Conclusion: Insummary, family doctors and primary care providers play a major role in controlling OSA and are involved indealing with CPAP, AHI measurement and RDI. Obstructive sleep apnea re-quires a high cost which may furthercontribute to late detection, complications deterioration, and increasing in the drop of follow-ups. Increasingawareness of the primary care providers especial-ly family physicians would help to avoid such outcomes. OSAremains a common condition that requires attention, identification, and more directed research.