{"id":50289,"date":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/a-smartphone-for-detecting-sleep-apnea-at-home\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:00:00","slug":"a-smartphone-for-detecting-sleep-apnea-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/a-smartphone-for-detecting-sleep-apnea-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A smartphone for detecting sleep apnea at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a disorder characterized by recurrent airflow cessation during sleep that can affect sleep quality, leading to symptoms of varying severity. Its prevalence in the general population ranges from 9% to 38%, being higher in men, but it increases up to 90% in men and 78% in women in some elderly groups. However, despite these high numbers and the serious consequences, most OSA patients remain undiagnosed and untreated.<\/p>\n<p>The reason: the \u201cgold-standard\u201d for OSA diagnosis, nocturnal polysomnography (PSG), is an intrusive technique which implies an overnight stay at hospital connected to a system that monitorises the activity of the heart, lungs and brain; breathing patterns, movements of the arms and legs, and blood oxygen levels during sleep, it also represents a high cost, and does not provide long-term information about patients\u2019 condition.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new approach designed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/research-groups\/biomedical-signal-processing-and-interpretation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biomedical signal processing and interpretation<\/a> group at IBEC \u2013and tested in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinicbarcelona.org\/en\/assistance\/diseases\/apneas-del-sueno\/tratamiento-en-el-clinic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sleep Lab<\/a> at Hospital Cl\u00ednic of Barcelona\u2013 is not only able to detect sound from oral and nasal breathing during sleep at home and thus identify breathless events, but also to analyze the data with special algorithms developed at IBEC and to differentiate between apneas -complete cessation of airflow for more than10 s- and hypoapneas- a partial cessation of airflow for more than10 s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authors, the new results may be of great interest for clinicians to develop a screening and monitoring tool for millions of OSA patients at home. \u201cWe are now much closer to a real alternative for millions of people suffering apneas but not being diagnosed and treated yet\u201d says Raimon Jan\u00e9, principal investigator at IBEC, UPC professor and leader of this research.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Raimon Jan\u00e9 and his group at the IBEC have been intensively working in the last years looking for mobile health (mHealth) solutions. Now, Jan\u00e9 with Yolanda Castillo and Ignasi Ferrer, both PhD students granted by la Caixa Foundation, have published a paper in IEEE Access, the Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal of IEEE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25ba Reference article:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Castillo-Escario, Y., Ferrer-Lluis, I., Montserrat, J. M., Jan\u00e9, R., (2019).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2019.2939749\" style=\"font-weight: 200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entropy analysis of acoustic signals recorded with a smartphone for detecting apneas and hypopneas: A comparison with a commercial system for home sleep apnea diagnosis<\/a>\u00a0IEEE Access\u00a07, 128224-128241<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25ba More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibecbarcelona.eu\/a-smartphone-for-detecting-sleep-apnea-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBEC website [+]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/portal\/en\/cerca?p_p_id=cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;p_p_col_id=column-1&amp;p_p_col_count=1&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_jspPage=%2Fhtml%2Fcommon%2Fdetall-empresa.jsp&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_empresaId=ENT_000134&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_redirect=%2Fportal%2Fca%2Fcerca%3Fp_p_id%3Dcercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_keywords%3Dibec%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_tab%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBEC<\/a>) at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) has developed a portable, cheap and non-invasive system to detect Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) at home, a disorder characterized by recurrent airflow cessation during sleep. Researchers propose a novel method consisting of analyzing acoustic signals recorded with a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A smartphone for detecting sleep apnea at home - Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/a-smartphone-for-detecting-sleep-apnea-at-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A smartphone for detecting sleep apnea at home - Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) has developed a portable, cheap and non-invasive system to detect Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) at home, a disorder characterized by recurrent airflow cessation during sleep. 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