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  • Sleep latency, a measure of sleep quality, is a key indicator of daytime sleepiness.

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  • To investigate the association between specific metabolite concentrations and sleep latency in newly diagnosed, untreated OSA patients.
  • To identify potential metabolic mechanisms linking sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in OSA.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional study of 88 treatment-naive OSA participants.
  • Analysis of fasting morning plasma samples for targeted metabolites.
  • Multiple linear regression used to assess associations between metabolites and sleep latency, controlling for covariates (age, sex, BMI, race, smoking, AHI).

Main Results:

  • Aminoacetone showed a significant inverse association with sleep latency (p=0.00072).
  • Lower aminoacetone levels were observed in participants with longer sleep onset latency (>60 min) compared to those with shorter latency (<15 min).

Conclusions:

  • This is the first study to report a relationship between aminoacetone and sleep latency in newly diagnosed OSA.
  • Findings suggest aminoacetone may play a role in the mechanisms of sleep latency and sleepiness in OSA.