The Food and Drug Administration has approved an Apple Watch function that can help detect sleep apnea. Here's how it works.
For FDA clearance, Apple tested the feature on about 1,400 people then compared it against the gold standard medical sleep test. Apple says the watch correctly alerted people who had apnea 66% of the time.The American Medical Association estimates that 30 to 40 million Americans have sleep apnea, but most aren't diagnosed. Now, a new update is coming to the health app on Apple Watches that could you the information you need to get help.
"Cardiovascular health, diabetes, hypertension," explained pulmonary care and sleep medicine expert Dr. Raj Dasgupta with Huntington Health Hospital.Medical sleep apnea tests need a doctor's prescription, can be expensive, and require an overnight sleep center stay or hooking up diagnostic equipment at home. Now, the Food and Drug Administration has approved Apple's sleep apnea detection feature for use on Apple Watches.
He adds that it's not a diagnostic device, but it screens for breathing disturbances without using oxygen monitors. "No oxygen in, no carbon dioxide out, and to have an apnea, it's usually going to be 10 seconds long," said Dasgupta.
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