Autonomic arousal detection and cardio-respiratory sleep staging improve the accuracy of home sleep apnea tests

Introduction: The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), defined as the number of apneas and hypopneas per hour of sleep, is still used as an important index to assess sleep disordered breathing (SDB) severity, where hypopneas are confirmed by the presence of an oxygen desaturation or an arousal. Ambulatory po...

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Main Authors: Marco Ross, Pedro Fonseca, Sebastiaan Overeem, Ray Vasko, Andreas Cerny, Edmund Shaw, Peter Anderer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2023.1254679/full