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How a Wearable Reads Heart Rate During Sleep

Wearables measure heart rate during sleep using optical sensors on the skin. Here is what that signal captures and wh...

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What a Sleep Score Actually Calculates

A sleep score is a single number derived from sensor proxies, not a clinical diagnosis — here is what the calculation...

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How Wearables Detect Sleep Stages

Wearables infer sleep stages from heart rate, movement, and skin signals — not brainwaves. Here is what the data show...

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What Heart Rate Variability Reveals About Sleep

Heart rate variability shifts measurably across sleep stages, and wearable trackers use those shifts to infer sleep d...

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How Accurate Consumer Sleep Trackers Really Are

Consumer sleep trackers estimate sleep stages from motion and heart rate, but their accuracy against clinical polysom...

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How a Sleep Score Is Calculated

A sleep score is a single number derived from wearable sensor data, weighted by proprietary algorithms — not a clinic...

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What a Polysomnogram Actually Records

A polysomnogram is a clinical sleep study that simultaneously records brain activity, eye movement, muscle tone, and breathing.

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How a Sleep Tracker Actually Measures Sleep

Consumer sleep trackers infer sleep stages indirectly from motion and heart rate, not from the brain activity clinical tests record.

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