title: New Approaches to Diagnosing Sleep-Disordered Breathing.
abstract: Novel concepts and technological advances have the potential to change the landscape on which clinical sleep medicine is practiced. Screening for sleep apnea will take advantage of readily available mobile telephone technology (sound, accelerometers) to enable widespread recognition of sleep-disordered breathing. Advanced computer-assisted scoring algorithms will improve efficiency and reliability of sleep apnea diagnoses. As the field adopts a personalized approach to therapies, methods to determine the mechanisms of sleep apnea in individuals will be developed-utilizing simplified tests and available recordings-with the promise of predicting outcomes of novel therapies.
authors.affiliation: Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine and Central Clinical School, The Alfred and Monash University, 55 Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia. Electronic address: sasands@partners.org.
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sands
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Atul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malhotra
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Apnea; Phenotyping; Screening; Technology