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  • Sleep Medicine

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  • Sleep disturbances are common in aging and linked to mortality.
  • Traditional sleep scoring methods have limitations in assessing age-related changes.

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  • To develop deep neural networks (DNNs) for estimating biological age from polysomnograms (PSGs).
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  • To identify sleep biomarkers predictive of mortality risk.

Main Methods:

  • Trained DNNs on 2500 PSGs to model aging.
  • Validated models on 10,699 PSGs across seven cohorts (ages 20-90).
  • Analyzed the relationship between AEE and mortality, controlling for covariates.

Main Results:

  • DNNs estimated age with a mean absolute error of 5.8 ± 1.6 years, outperforming standard sleep scoring (14.9 ± 6.29 years).
  • Each 10-year increase in AEE correlated with a 29% higher mortality rate.
  • A 20-year increase in AEE (from -10 to +10 years) predicted an 8.7-year decrease in life expectancy.

Conclusions:

  • DNN-based age estimation from PSGs is a robust predictor of mortality.
  • Increased AEE, primarily driven by sleep fragmentation, serves as an independent biomarker of future health.
  • This approach offers a novel method for assessing healthspan and mortality risk beyond traditional sleep metrics.