About the Authors

Magdalena Wszedybyl-Winklewska

magdalenawinklewska@gumed.edu.pl

Affiliation Institute of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Jacek Wolf

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Ewa Swierblewska

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Katarzyna Kunicka

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Agnieszka Gruszecka

Affiliation Department of Radiology Informatics and Statistics, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Marcin Gruszecki

Affiliation Department of Radiology Informatics and Statistics, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Wieslawa Kucharska

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Pawel J. Winklewski

Affiliations Institute of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, Institute of Health Sciences, Pomeranian University of Slupsk, Slupsk, Poland

Joanna Zabulewicz

Affiliation Institute of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Wojciech Guminski

Affiliation Department of Computer Communications, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

Michal Pietrewicz

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

Andrzej F. Frydrychowski

Affiliation Institute of Human Physiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Leszek Bieniaszewski

Affiliation Centre for Medical Simulation, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Krzysztof Narkiewicz

Affiliation Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Competing Interests

NIRTI SA, Wierzbice, Poland rented the SAS-Monitor device to the authors. Drs. Andrzej Frydrychowski, Wojciech Guminski and Pawel J. Winklewski are stakeholders in NIRTI SA (www.nirt.pl). Drs. Jacek Wolf and Krzysztof Narkiewicz received fees for lectures on sleep apnoea from ResMed. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MWW JW PJW AFF LB KN. Data curation: AG MG MP. Formal analysis: AG MG MP. Funding acquisition: KN. Investigation: MWW JW ES KK JZ WK. Methodology: MWW JW PJW AFF LB KN. Project administration: MWW JW PJW. Resources: AFF KN. Software: AG MG. Supervision: PJW AFF LB KN. Validation: MWW JW PJW AG MG. Visualization: MG. Writing – original draft: MWW JW PJW MG. Writing – review & editing: MWW JW ES KK AG MG WK PJW JZ WG MP AFF LB KN.