New techniques for modelling, diagnosis and counter measures for cardiac related sleep disordered breathing

大约50%的充血性心力衰竭患者有某种形式的睡眠呼吸障碍。然而，迄今为止，在同时监测、分析和治疗这两种疾病方面做得很少。因此，该项目建议开发新的技术，结合心率变异性的数学模型，考虑睡眠呼吸障碍和心血管疾病之间的联系。这一创新将首次使一种仅使用传统心电图数据就能准确可靠地诊断各种睡眠障碍的设备成为可能。这种技术有可能产生重大的社区健康效益，并在全世界挽救数百万人的生命。

Around 50% of congestive heart failure sufferers have some form of sleep disordered breathing. However, little has been done so far to simultaneously monitor, analyse and treat the two conditions. Therefore, this project proposes to develop new technology incorporating mathematical models for heart rate variability, considering the links between sleep disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease. This innovation will enable, for the first time, a device capable of accurate and reliable diagnosis of various sleep disorders using only conventional ECG data. Such technology has the potential to produce significant community health benefits, and save several millions of lives worldwide.