Garmin field flagging respiratory irregularities during sleep. Two values: NONE or LOW. Under-documented by Garmin.
Breathing Disruption is a categorical field in the Garmin sleep export indicating whether the sleep engine detected respiratory irregularities during the night. The field has two values: NONE and LOW. There is no MEDIUM or HIGH classification published. Garmin does not publicly document what triggers this flag, what threshold of respiratory variation is required, or how the detection algorithm works. The field's relationship to clinical breathing disorders such as sleep apnea is not specified by Garmin and should not be inferred. In the Sleepgenic dataset, Breathing Disruption is treated as a categorical signal worth tracking longitudinally. Patterns in tag frequency by stimulus type, by altitude exposure, and by sleep architecture state are the primary research questions. The field is one of the most under-documented in the Garmin export and one of the more interesting fields to interpret over time.
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