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Re:Deep Sleep May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s by ryanfreeborn on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:28PM (#36026756)
Many have already pointed that there have been studies to measure the accuracy of sleep analysis by wearables. They aren't that great. If you have a concern, you should definitely seek out a polysomnograph, and wearables should not be a replacement for that. However, you can't get a polysomnograph every night, and wearables are probably the best option for regular analysis. Just because they're not that great doesn't mean they're useless, and doesn't mean they won't improve.
Re:Deep Sleep May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s by hackernewds on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:45AM (#36027857)
they can be

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8120339/

Most devices (Fatigue Science Readiband, Fitbit Alta HR, EarlySense Live, ResMed S+, SleepScore Max) performed as well as or better than actigraphy on sleep/wake performance measures, while the Garmin devices performed worse.