🔬 Science Jun 8, 2026 · Tami Freeman

Abnormal snoring sounds help diagnose common sleep disorder

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Abnormal snoring sounds help diagnose common sleep disorder
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Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a sleep disorder in which the throat muscles relax and block the airway during sleep, causing pauses in breathing. If left untreated, OSA can lead to serious health problems. A research team led by Mingjiang Wang at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen in China, in collaboration with Huizhou University, has now come up with a new method for detecting OSA – based on recordings of the subject snoring.
“OSA is a common yet underdiagnosed sleep disorder,” ex

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