Ma, Yan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-2920
Sun, Shuchen
Zhang, Ming
Guo, Dan
Liu, Arron Runzhou
Wei, Yulin
Peng, Chung-Kang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81273820)
National Institutes of Health (T32AT000051)
Article History
Received: 5 November 2018
Revised: 18 May 2019
Accepted: 24 May 2019
First Online: 21 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Chung-Kang Peng is a co-patent holder for the ECG-based analytic technique for phenotyping sleep and sleep apnea, known as cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) analysis. He also receives royalties from a license issued by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to MyCardio, LLC. The other authors report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper.
: The datasets included in this study were collected previously from clinical studies with separate protocols approved by different Institutional Review Boards (IRB) accordingly, and all procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the studies. All the data we used in this secondary analysis study were de-identified. Therefore, additional IRB approval was waived.