"Social Apnea": Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Exacerbated on Weekends

Lucía Pinilla; Bastien Lechat; Hannah Scott; Amy C. Reynolds; Jack Manners; Kelly Sansom; Robert Adams; Pierre Escourrou; Peter Catcheside; Danny J. Eckert

doi:10.1164/rccm.202505-1184RL

"Social Apnea": Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Exacerbated on Weekends

Lucía Pinilla, Bastien Lechat, Hannah Scott, Amy C. Reynolds, Jack Manners, Kelly Sansom, Robert Adams, Pierre Escourrou, Peter Catcheside, Danny J. Eckert

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To the Editor:

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity can vary markedly from night to night, which can yield inaccurate diagnoses in ∼20% of patients and is an independent predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Despite well-established insights into variations in sleep patterns across the week (i.e., weekend catch-up sleep and social jet lag), no study has evaluated day-of-week differences in OSA severity. Here, we investigate changes in OSA severity across days of the week, leveraging objective sleep data from more than 70,000 users of an under-mattress home OSA monitor. Some of the results of this study have been previously reported in abstract form...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2402-2404
Number of pages	3
Journal	American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Volume	211
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202505-1184RL
Publication status	Published - Dec 2025

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obstructive sleep apnea
sleep patterns

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