Exploring nationwide patterns of sleep problems from late adolescence to adulthood using machine learning
24-09-2025Sleep problems among young adults pose a major public health challenge. Leveraging nationwide health surveys and registers from Denmark, we investigated patterns of sleep problems from late adolescence to adulthood and explored early life-course determinants. We generated life-course embeddings using unsupervised machine learning on data from 2.2 million individuals born from 1980 to 2015. We used this landscape to identify neighboring factors of sleep problems. We observed a substantial...

WN-Sleep: Modeling Whole-Night Data for Improved Sleep Staging Classification
24-09-2025Sleep staging, crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders, requires precise recognition of physiological signals within 30-second epochs, a task fundamentally different from managing long-term semantic dependencies in natural language processing (NLP). Our model aims to refine the integration of local and global features for more accurate sleep stage classification. Following the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) guidelines, it focuses on rigorous intra-epoch feature extraction to ensure...

Night eating symptoms impact body mass index through sleep-related factors rather than depressive symptoms and impulsivity: Evidence from a medical student population
24-09-2025The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between night eating symptoms (NES) and body mass index (BMI) in medical students and to examine the potential mediating role of impulsivity, depressive symptoms and sleep-related factors in this relationship. The study included 408 medical students in their first to third years of study. Participants were asked to complete the sociodemographic information form, Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI),...

Impact of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on metabolic and renal parameters in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease: a prospective cohort study
24-09-2025CONCLUSION: CPAP therapy significantly improved metabolic and renal parameters, particularly albuminuria and insulin resistance, in patients with OSA, T2DM, and CKD. However, it did not significantly impact the eGFR over 18 months.

The mediating role of pain in the relationship between sleep and recovery
24-09-2025CONCLUSION: Sleep quality influences postoperative recovery both directly and indirectly through pain levels. The findings suggest that holistic approaches to sleep and pain management in postoperative care processes may optimise recovery.