ERS International Congress 2022: Sleep Medicine Highlights from Assembly 4

During the European Respiratory Society International Congress 2022 in Barcelona (Spain), the latest research and clinical topics in respiratory medicine have been presented. The sleep medicine-focused presentations and symposia provided novel insights into the pathophysiology of sleep-disordered breathing, its diagnostics and new trends in translational research and clinical applications. The presented research trends focused mainly on the assessment of sleep disordered breathing-related intermittent hypoxia, inflammation, and sleep fragmentation and their implications, especially cardiovascular. The most promising methods for assessing these aspects encompass genomics, proteomics and cluster analysis. The currently available options include positive airway pressure and a combination of it and pharmacological agents (e.g.sulthiame). This article summarises the most relevant studies and topics to this extent presented at the ERS International Congress 2022. Each section has been written by Early Career Members of the ERS Assembly 4.