Sleep apnea detection comes to Apple Watch for Australians
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Your smartwatch is becoming more advanced with Apple introducing sleep apnea alerts as part of their Sleep Tracking feature on compatible Apple Watches.

Sanctioned by Australia’s health regulator, the TGA, the Apple Watch can monitor disturbances during sleep and provide notifications to the wearer regarding a potential sleep apnea diagnosis.

Sleep apnea is a significant health issue that can lead to high blood pressure, fatigue, type 2 diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and even a reduced lifespan, and, as Dr. Matt Bianchi, a research scientist at Apple informed 9News, most individuals with this condition are unaware.

Your smartwatch is getting smarter with Apple today enabling sleep apnea notifications. (Apple)

“We’re talking about a billion people worldwide with this condition, but 80 per cent of those individuals don’t have a diagnosis currently, they are not aware they have it,” he said.

Critically, Bianchi explains, sleep apnea can be treated.

“This is a treatable disorder, so the chance for us at that scale worldwide to chip away at that 80 per cent undiagnosed problem is the motivating factor for us.”

There are already products on the market that can detect sleep apnea, like the Withings Sleep Analyser which lays under the mattress and detects movement and sound, while other smart watches like the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 will also feature sleep apnea detection when available.

The Apple Watch is the first smartwatch on the market in Australia with this feature.

It works by detecting movement.

In fact, as Bianchi told 9News, your watch is able to feel every breath you take.

“The accelerometer sensor on the Apple Watch is a motion detector, but is very, very sensitive, even those small motions of breathing that you make while you sleep can be seen at the wrist by the accelerometer and that’s how we detect interruptions in breathing at the watch.”

Sleep apnea detection will be available on the most recent models of Apple Watch, the Series 9 and 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, and is available today through a software update.

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