Insufficiency of Wearables for Sleep Stage Assessment

Alex Barnes; Réme Mountifield

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2025.08.022

Insufficiency of Wearables for Sleep Stage Assessment

Alex Barnes, Réme Mountifield

College of Medicine and Public Health

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Dear Editor
We read with great interest the work of Hirten et al1 on the use of wearable devices to identifiable sleep characteristics in active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). They should be congratulated on advancing the possibility of noninvasive monitoring for subclinical inflammation in IBD. However, we do feel that the limitations of wearable technology in sleep assessment are not sufficiently described, and that using this technology to assess sleep architecture is potentially inaccurate.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Journal	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2025.08.022
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2 Sept 2025

Keywords

wearables
wearable devices
sleep characteristics
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

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