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Consumer Technology for Sleep-Disordered Breathing: a Review of the Landscape

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

The consumer market for devices that quantify sleep is quickly evolving. We conducted a review of the consumer technology available for sleep disorders, including its potential and limitations to screen obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Recent Findings

There are many commercial devices claiming to objectively measure sleep, but only a few are tested rigorously in research. We critically review the technology available, including its overall ability to provide objective measures of sleep (total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE), sleep latency (SL), wake after sleep onset (WASO)), and to estimate apnea-hypopnea indexes in OSA patients.

Summary

Although consumer devices performed similarly to standard actigraphy, they still overestimated TST and SE, and underestimated WASO and SL. Biomotion sensors and mattress-based devices showed potential for use as an OSA screening tool. However, research in the sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) population is limited, needs further external validation, and should be implemented in the course of multiple days.

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  1. Global Brain Health Institute/Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1500 Owens Street, Suite 320, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA

    Talita D. Rosa & Jennifer Zitser

  2. Movement Disorders Unit, Neurological Institute, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Jennifer Zitser

  3. Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Sleep Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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Rosa, T.D., Zitser, J. & Capasso, R. Consumer Technology for Sleep-Disordered Breathing: a Review of the Landscape. Curr Otorhinolaryngol Rep 7, 18–26 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40136-019-00222-4

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