“…Nevertheless, it is very likely that most diabetic clinics contain sizeable numbers of patients with symptomatic sleep apnoea, many of whom have yet to be identified. It is all too easy to attribute fatigue, sleepiness and nocturia to diabetes rather than to the coexisting sleep apnoea syndrome 15. Individuals with these symptoms should be asked whether they snore (a cardinal feature of OSAS) and sleepiness should be assessed using the simple self‐reported Epworth sleepiness scale 16.…”