{"id":65906,"date":"2012-10-19T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=65906"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:37:44","slug":"the-uncomfortable-sound-of-apnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-uncomfortable-sound-of-apnea\/","title":{"rendered":"The uncomfortable sound of apnea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65913\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65913\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-5.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-5-120x69.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-5-250x143.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">PAULA MUNIZ<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New way to diagnose the disorder: record and analyze the sound of snoring<span class=\"media-credits\">PAULA MUNIZ<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>To facilitate the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder characterized by pauses during breathing while one is asleep, the\u00a0 Physics Institute (IF) of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) has developed a new method that consists of using a tape recorder to capture the sounds emitted by patients while asleep (<em>Physica A<\/em>, <em>on-line,<\/em> August 25, 2012). The sounds are processed and measured in decibels by a computer before being converted to a graph using a system called \u2018Snore Time Interval Index\u2019.\u00a0 Intervals between snores lasting more than 10 seconds but less than 100 seconds describe a complete stoppage of breathing, i.e., apnea. Currently, the diagnosis is made through a polysomnography exam, a high cost procedure in which the patient is required to sleep in a hospital or specialized institute while connected to monitoring equipment.\u00a0 The new technique, developed by professors Adriano Alencar at the IF and Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho coordinator of the Sleep Laboratory at the USP School of Medicine was tested on 17 patients and used in speech therapy research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New method facilitates the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247,235],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-65906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65906"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}