This, precisely. An apneic event is defined as 10 seconds of pause in your breathing (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-apnea/ahi https://www.sleepfoundatio

This, precisely. An apneic event is defined as 10 seconds of pause in your breathing (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-apnea/ahi https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-apnea/ahi). Go ahead and hold your breath for a slow count of 10 (set a timer or do the mississippis or alligators or locomotives or whatever other 4 syllable phrase you need to do in order to make it a real, honest 10 seconds. it's long enough to be noticeably uncomfortable). You don't casually do that during the day. Sleep apnea is defined as you doing that 10-15 times per hour, and your sleep study also measures microarousals to correlate (source: I built the damn things for a living a few years back). Also they do monitor o2 sat in children at least, cyanosis is one of the ways they diagnose apnea in children. Way too many professionals in the field thinking that they're the first person to think about something when literally millions of people think about this same thing all day every day.