Bedding-based technology can 'help detect sleep disorder'
Published: 13 October 2009
People suffering from sleep apnoea while they snooze under their duvet cover may be offered help through a new technique developed to hear signs of the condition when a person is between the sheets.
Australian scientists have found a novel way to discover whether or not people are suffering from sleep apnoea when they snooze each evening, it has been revealed.The Daily Telegraph reported how representatives from the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the University of Queensland looked at 20 patients with the condition, registering their breathing rhythms and concluding that an analytical test could pick up on the problem nine times out of ten.
It is good because an accurate way of diagnosing sleep apnoea while people are snuggled up under their bedding could be "extremely helpful", Dr Neil Stanley, a famous sleep doctor in the UK, believes.
He continued: "Many patients are told about their snoring by their bed partner, but some can go years not even realising there is a problem, only that they are constantly exhausted."
The NHS classes sleep apnoea as a "serious condition", highlighting how the poor quality of sleep caused by the problem is linked to a bigger risk of a life-threatening accident such as a car crash.
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