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SLEEP 2026 | Hot topics from SLEEP 2026: pediatric sleep management, sleep during pregnancy, & more
Karen Spruyt, PhD, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, NeuroDiderot, Paris, France, shares key topics being discussed at SLEEP 2026. These include pediatric sleep and the transition to adult care, as well as sleep complaints during pregnancy. This interview took place at the 40th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) in Baltimore, MD.
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Well the first hot topic for me personally being a fan of pediatric sleep was the fact that we had at least three, four, five sessions a day on pediatric sleep and so summarizing each of them would be, you know, the transition of care because this is very dependent on the sleep disorder the child has and particularly in terms of narcolepsy, but also in terms of sleep-disordered breathing, so where the medication as well as the technology needs to move from the pediatric care to the adult care and as you see in the United States, there’s different healthcare systems, but also different states, and children when they grow old and get into another system, another state, university...
Well the first hot topic for me personally being a fan of pediatric sleep was the fact that we had at least three, four, five sessions a day on pediatric sleep and so summarizing each of them would be, you know, the transition of care because this is very dependent on the sleep disorder the child has and particularly in terms of narcolepsy, but also in terms of sleep-disordered breathing, so where the medication as well as the technology needs to move from the pediatric care to the adult care and as you see in the United States, there’s different healthcare systems, but also different states, and children when they grow old and get into another system, another state, university. And so the transition of care is quite important there. And then another one that I noticed is the sleep during pregnancy and sleep in the first days of life and the transitioning all the way till, you know, toddlerhood. So this is really a period that a lot of attention is needed as well to the sleep complaints of the mom, as well, the sleep complaints during pregnancy, after birth, and the first couple of months, and maybe the first thousand days of life. So those are the key two elements. Then, of course, the advances in sleep-disordered breathing, as we see more and more evolution there. Narcolepsy is, of course, a hot topic, and then obesity is there as well, so the main themes remain, but two emphases are, of course, that transition of care, as well as sleep during pregnancy, after birth, and then the first couple of months of life.
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