mrueschman

Stephanie Marvin reviewed these files/issues and did what she could to fix them. In short, we removed the XML annotation files for aa2180 and replaced the files for aa2618 and aa2931.

I made some notes on the MrOS polysomnography introduction page.

A subset of our MrOS data were very problematic to export for NSRR years ago due to some past file corruption. We cleaned up as much as we could but some strange stuff still slipped through.

Thanks again for bringing these issues to our attention!

Steph,

Thanks for the heads-up - we will check these MrOS files out.

Most datasets contain a "Montage and Sampling Rate Information" page, which describes the signals most commonly found in the PSG/EDF data.

E.g.

https://sleepdata.org/datasets/shhs/pages/10-montage-and-sampling-rate-information-shhs1.md https://sleepdata.org/datasets/chat/pages/equipment/montage-and-sampling-rate-information.md

Thanks for your interest in the site!

Thanks for checking out the site and data, Richard.

Yes, the XML files as-is will not work in Polyman. The "NSRR" versions of the XML annotations are designed to work with EDF Viewer. The "Profusion" XML are straight from Compumedics Profusion where the sleep studies were originally scored.

To make these "openable" in Polyman you will have to write some sort of script that translates the existing XML into the format readable by Polyman. You can explore the XML structure by opening one of the files in a text editor.

Mike

That's correct. There are individual "time until X" variables like MI, CABG, PTCA, etc. I think the CVD death variable is a composite that the dataset owners created from the other "time until fatal X event" variables, so you could probably create your own "time until first instance of CVD" from some of the other CVD Outcomes variables.

Some information here from the SHHS authors: https://sleepdata.org/datasets/shhs/files/documentation?f=SHHS_CVD_Outcomes_Protocol.pdf

Sorry for the confusion. The "time until death" is the correct definition. We will update this an upcoming release for these variables:

https://sleepdata.org/datasets/shhs/variables/chd_dthdt

https://sleepdata.org/datasets/shhs/variables/cvd_dthdt

Thanks for the question. All of the "Start" times are in "seconds from recording start time". You are correct about the Durations, i.e. the SpO2 artifact (#2) lasted 3 seconds and the Arousal (#3) lasted 25.4 seconds.

Tom,

Thanks for raising this on the forum. Yes, at my own glance, bmiz_change appears to be wrong. It looks like the data owners had another variable, chg_bmiz, which is more correct but was removed for redundancy with bmiz_change. I will swap the variables in a future release.

For the time being, I suggest using a calculation of your own for the BMI Z-score change between baseline and follow-up.

Baseline = readings from the baseline visit Followup = readings from the follow-up visit (approximately 3 months after baseline)

Subjects were randomized at baseline, followed for 3 months, and then given another sleep study. The numbers in the filenames are the Subject Codes, so many subjects have both a "baseline" and "followup" reading. (E.g. heartbeat-baseline-700001.edf is a reading from the same person as heartbeat-followup-700001.edf).

There were 3 treatment arms (described here) and the subjects are all mixed together (i.e. not separated out by apnea or control status).

An entry criteria for HeartBEAT was an AHI >= 15, so all the subjects in the study had some level of sleep apnea to begin with.

Hi,

The EDF files contain EKG and Pulse signals, which will give second-by-second tracings from the heart-related signals. You will find some EDF visualizing/processing tools on our directory here.

Some information on the signals here: https://sleepdata.org/datasets/heartbeat/pages/equipment

The EDFs are here: https://sleepdata.org/datasets/heartbeat/files/polysomnography/edfs

You

Mike