Polysomnography

Among adults with obstructive sleep apnea receiving oral appliance therapy, mandibular jaw movement automated analysis plus monitoring may help with titration, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Polysomnography is the current gold standard in sleep testing, but a new method has achieved similar performance in sleep stage scoring via an electrocardiography-based deep learning neural network, according to a press release.

Among patients with obstructive sleep apnea, sleeping less than 7 hours was linked to a heightened risk for all-cause mortality, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

WASHINGTON — Black patients had decreased desaturation sensitivity during sleep recorded by pulse oximeters, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Sleep disorder screening in routine care identified issues among more than 25% of pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis, according to a poster presented at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference.

Patients with HF who received an implantable cardioverter defibrillator that detected severe sleep apnea may be two- to threefold more likely to experience an atrial fibrillation episode, according to a new analysis of DASAP-HF data.

Sleep breathing sounds recorded via smartphone yielded fair prediction of obstructive sleep apnea, researchers reported in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.

Noninvasive multi-night in-home monitoring of sleep and obstructive sleep apnea may support current OSA diagnosis and management practices, researchers reported in a recent study.

Sleep deprivation for one night can result in a 30% rise in anxiety levels, which can be mitigated by deep sleep, according to results published in Nature Human Behaviour.

SAN FRANCISCO — Young adults with obstructive sleep apnea may experience preclinical thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer and could be at higher risk for glaucoma, according to a speaker here.