{"id":4807,"date":"2021-07-19T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:10:24","slug":"do-you-have-social-jet-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/?p=4807&lang=zh","title":{"rendered":"Do you have social jet lag?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rhythm, a new smartphone\napp, helps you understand your sleep rhythms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A free new smartphone application, Rhythm,\ndeveloped by Dr. Yu-Hsuan Lin of the National Research Health Institutes, is a\nbreakthrough for measuring sleep patterns that can help people improve their\nsleep health and consequently their overall quality of life. Its features\nrepresent an important advance over what current wearable devices can achieve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has long been recognized\nthat sleep deprivation is harmful to mental health. Recent investigations,\nhowever, have shown that irregular sleep patterns \u2014 especially a pattern of\nregular sleep deprivation followed by increased weekend sleep time, or \u201csocial\njet lag\u201d \u2014 has an even greater adverse impact than sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to help\nthe citizens of Taiwan improve their overall health by managing their sleep\npatterns, the National Health Research Institutes asked Dr. Lin to develop a\nnew app for smartphones. The application tracks smartphone-use patterns to\nderive sleep times and analyzes changes in sleep patterns. It has an accuracy\nof 90.4 percent for sleep-time estimation and a consistency of 87 percent for\ncircadian rhythm fluctuation, demonstrating the app\u2019s reliability. It also\ndisplays sleep patterns graphically, and notes how sleep patterns differ\nbetween weekdays and weekends, helping users avoid social jet lag. The research\nbehind the building of this app was published in a top international journal, JMIR<\/em>\nmHealth and uHealth<\/em>, in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research at the\nNational Health Research Institutes has shown that long-term irregular sleep\npatterns may increase the risk of not only diabetes and cardiovascular disease\nbut also of cancer and mental illness. According to research published in JAMA Psychiatry<\/em>, changes in activity\nlevels and sleep patterns are a greater predictor of manic episodes compared to\nsubjective mood changes. Sleep-pattern changes may be an important treatment\nmarker for mania, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the\ninvention of this app, self-monitoring sleep patterns was difficult. Neither\nthe wearable devices currently on the market nor in-hospital sleep laboratory\ninvestigation (i.e., polysomnography) can attain both accuracy and wide\naccessibility. In a one-month test of twenty-eight subjects, however, the\nRhythm app achieved both high accuracy in its monitoring of sleep patterns\n(90.4 percent) and consistency (87 percent). The algorithm is able to\naccurately quantify weekend sleep times, which is a feature that wearable\ndevices on the market do not have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certain occupations\nrequire early-morning starts, which may cause sleep deprivation and lead to\ncatch-up sleep on the weekends, with late sleep times and late wake times. It\nis almost as if a person shifted one whole time zone from Taiwan to Bangkok on\nweekends and had to shift back on Monday. Research shows that social jet lag\nmay increase the risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. In\n2017, the American Sleep Association showed that one hour of social jet lag may\nincrease the risk of cardiovascular disease by 11 percent. In 2019, an article in Current Biology<\/em>\nshowed that sleep deprivation may cause reduced insulin sensitivity and raised\nglucose levels, increasing the risk of diabetes. Social jet lag does not\nreverse the effects of sleep deprivation and may even worsen insulin sensitivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free\nMandarin-language app is available for Android phones at https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=pin2wall.nhri.rhythm&hl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rhythm, a new smartphone app, helps you understand your sleep rhythms A free new smartphone application, Rhythm, developed by Dr. Yu-Hsuan Lin of the National Research Health Institutes, is a breakthrough for measuring sleep patterns that can help people improve their sleep health and consequently their overall quality of life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4809,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuhsuanlinlab.app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}