A new report links heart rate variability (HRV) with risk of insomnia and used a novel tool for identifying patients who may be suffering from insomnia — their beds. The study, which was presented in March at the World Sleep Conference, in Rome, found patients with insomnia tended to have lower HRV. However, it also showed that so-called “smart beds” that are equipped with sensors and other technology to track people’s physiological and sleep pattern can produce meaningful health insights for and about the people who sleep in them.Ssleep disorders disrupt the way the brain operates and affects the regulation of bodily functions such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure. Sleep Number’s 360 smart beds are equipped with technology that gathers biometric and sleep data points. Garcia-Molina and his co-author, Shawn Barr, Ph.D., wanted to know whether those data might help indicate signals that a patient might be suffering from a sleep disorder.
For now, such data will not replace formal sleep studies in laboratories, but Garcia-Molina said they do offer something those sleep studies do not — accurate longitudinal context to support sleep disorder diagnoses. Moreover, he pointed to a recently published study suggesting that sleep data collected by the bed correlates strongly with data from formal polysomnography. In the future, he said advancements in data collection and analysis will be able to provide users with advanced sleep monitoring and personalized health insights, he said. The insomnia study is just one area of research for Sleep Number, which also presented data suggesting the bed can help identify symptoms of respiratory illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19.
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