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It looks really cool. Do you think there’s any applications to central or obstructive sleep apnea?

Yes definitely. Potentially it could be diagnostic too - the periods of apnoea would probably have a unique audio and accelerometer signal.

OSA is typically diagnosed now with polysomnographs, which have a lot of wires and sensors and are quite uncomfortable to sleep with. I think there are a few startups in this space, making much more lightweight and comfortable hardware. It may be interesting to just use a phone though..

Anecdote: I did 5 sleep tests (over the course of 6 years or so) with different hospitals in different countries with very differing results. I (EE) have 0 trust in the hardware/software of some of these devices.

1st test (the most elaborate in-hospital polysomnography with the tons of wires and not being able to move around): AHI 17

Subsequent ones all of the "take-home/installed at homee" portable type:

2nd: AHI 6

3rd: magically completely cured AHI 0

4th: AHI 5

5th: AHI 7

Yeah right...

Have you found any root cause or are you still suffering from sleeping issues? I also repeated 3 times the exam with different results and I'm a bit discouraged about this situation at the moment

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