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SLEEP 2022 Highlight 2 : Digital CBT-I and integrated with the EHR for treatment of chronic insomnia disorder

Numerous speakers, including Mayo Clinic, which is just recently ranked #1 in the US, have integrated its CBT-I with EHR for treating chronic insomnia. Mayo Clinic‘s findings demonstrated the importance of feedback and interaction with patients, especially feedback about self-selected changes to behavior, e.g., progress, nudge/rewards. …

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SLEEP 2022 Highlight: Inspiring Keynote from Dr. Susan Redline – the complexities of sleep-disordered breathing and increased cardiovascular risk

It has been a long debate about whether sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) increases cardiovascular risk. During the keynote of SLEEP 2022, Dr. Susan Redline (MD, MPH, professor of sleep medicine and epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) shared her findings on the physiologic impact of sleep apnea on stroke, hypertension and heart failure. The most insightful sharing from Dr. Redline is that we cannot rely on only one figure: AHI, as AHI does not identify sleep disruption autonomic stresses or phenotypic heterogeneity. Same AHI can have different: (1) duration and distribution of events; (2) Physiological consequences, including sleep fragmentation, hypoxic burden, pressure swings and autonomic cardiovascular (CV) responses. …

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Belun in SLEEP 2022 TUTORIAL

Belun is going to join SLEEP 2022 Tutorial. We are going to host a dinner gather with sharing session about AI-enabled Medical Wearable in Sleep Medicine Research on 7:30pm on Monday in 6th June, 2022 in Rosster’s Wood Fired Kitchen – Uptown, 150N, College Street, Suite 1000, Charlotte, NC 28202, (704) 370-7667. …

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