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Our study aims to evaluate the performance of a wrist-worn device in diagnosing sleep apnea among individuals with chronic insomnia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Participants with chronic insomnia suspected of having sleep apnea were consecutively enrolled at a sleep center. Single-night Watch-PAT 200 monitoring was conducted in parallel with attended in-lab polysomnography.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Recordings from 44 participants (41% female, age 49.1\u202f\u00b1\u202f12.7\u202fyears) with a wide range of sleep duration (222.9\u202f~\u202f461.4\u202fmin) and severity of sleep apnea [apnea\u2013hypopnea index (AHI) 0.3\u202f~\u202f83.9\/h] were analyzed. Using AHI\n                      <jats:sub>PAT<\/jats:sub>\n                      \u202f\u2265\u202f15\/h as the threshold, the sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for identifying moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) were 77.3% (95% CI 54.2\u201391.3%), 100.0% (95% CI 81.5\u2013100.0%), and 0.92 (95% CI 0.80\u20130.98), respectively. Diagnostic agreement defined by clinically oriented criteria was reached in 36 (82%) subjects. The Watch-PAT overestimated total sleep time and rapid eye movement sleep duration by 19.9\u202fmin (limits of agreement \u221248.1\u202f~\u202f87.9\u202fmin) and 37.2\u202fmin (limits of agreement \u221226.1\u202f~\u202f100.6\u202fmin), respectively.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among individuals with chronic insomnia, the wrist-worn home sleep apnea testing maintained acceptable diagnostic performance for identifying moderate-to-severe OSA. Sleep duration and staging parameters provided by the device should be interpreted with caution.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2026.1817165","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,10]],"date-time":"2026-06-10T04:29:59Z","timestamp":1781065799000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Performance of wrist-worn home sleep apnea testing (watch-PAT) among individuals with chronic insomnia: a comparative study with polysomnography"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Chuan","family":"Shi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College","place":["Beijing, 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