Comment on “Physiological phenotypes of obstructive sleep apnea identified by cluster analysis: Association with type 2 diabetes”
Huijuan Cheng, Zhe Zhang, Feng Lu · 2026
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Huijuan Cheng, Zhe Zhang, and Feng Lu question a claim about sleep apnea and diabetes in this 2026 comment letter. The study under discussion grouped sleep apnea patients by body patterns and found low oxygen at night tied to type 2 diabetes. Its authors read oxygen shortage as the main driver of blood sugar trouble.
Cheng and co-authors urge caution on that reading. In the study's own model, the oxygen measure stayed linked to diabetes while event counts did not. But the letter notes that one factor the study used, the arousal threshold, gauges the tendency to wake rather than the actual burden of broken sleep. That gap weakens the claim that fragmentation plays only a minor role.
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| CREATOR | Huijuan Cheng, Zhe Zhang, Feng Lu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |