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. 2022 Jun 7;46(4):zsac121. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsac121

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical information from included cohorts

Discovery (n = 3398) Replication (n = 3445)
WiSC, n = 962 MrOS, n = 2436 HypnoLaus, n = 1388 MESA, n = 2057
Age (year) 55.9 ± 7.7 76.5 ± 5.6 52.6 ± 10.5 69.6 ± 9.2
Sex, male (n (%)) 512 (53%) 2436 (100%) 776 (48.4%) 1036 (46%)
Ethnicity European European European (573 African, 743 European, 250 East Asian, 491 Native American)
BMI (kg/m2) 31.6 ± 7.2 27.2 ± 3.8 26.0 ± 4.3 28.8 ± 5.3
PLMI (PLMS/h) 6.4 [2.0, 16.9] 24.3 [3.4, 56.5] 2.4 [0.0, 19.8] 2.6 [0.0, 18.3]
PLMS+ (n (%)) 275 (29%) 1470 (60%) 425 (31%) 577 (26%)
Platform Affymetrix 6.0/500k Illumina Affymetrix Illumina
Study type Population based Population based Clinical sample Population based
PLMS ascertainment EMG; validated PLM detector algorithm [2, 25] Piezoelectric; manual annotation EMG; WASM criteria Piezoelectric; manual annotation

Note: BMI, body mass index; EMG, electromyography; PLMI, periodic limb movement index; PLMS, periodic limb movements in sleep; PLMS+PLMI ≥ 15 events per hour; WASM, World Association of Sleep Medicine. Values for age and BMI are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Values for PLMI are presented as a mean with a 95% confidence interval.