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Published in: Sleep and Breathing 2/2018

01-05-2018 | Epidemiology • Letter to the Editor (invited)

Validation study of accelerometer in measuring some sleep parameters in adults—reply

Author: Paul H. Lee

Published in: Sleep and Breathing | Issue 2/2018

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Dr. Kawada raised three concerns about our study. First, the validity of the reference accelerometer, Actiwatch 2, was questioned, as there existed only validation study in children and adolescents (against polysomnography). Second, there are a number of thresholds for classifying sleep and awake epochs and they perform differently in measuring different sleep parameters. Third, subjects with insomnia may have little motion during wakefulness and these wakefulness time might be misclassified as sleep by accelerometers. …
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Title
Validation study of accelerometer in measuring some sleep parameters in adults—reply
Author
Paul H. Lee
Publication date
01-05-2018
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Sleep and Breathing / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1520-9512
Electronic ISSN: 1522-1709
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-017-1552-z

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