Table 1.
Mattress effects on nocturnal means, SD, min and max values of the LM, the HM and their differences (HM-LM) (see Figs. 1, 2).
| LM | HM | HM-LM | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean | SD | Min | Max | Mean | SD | Min | Max | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
| HR | 69 | 61.48 | 8.77 | 42.99 | 84.16 | 59.12 | 8.49 | 40.99 | 78.77 | − 2.36 | 3.62 | − 11.96 | 7.35 |
| MAT | 71 | 33.43 | 0.85 | 30.29 | 35.13 | 30.63 | 0.95 | 28.00 | 33.24 | − 2.80 | 1.05 | − 5.08 | − 0.10 |
| PBT | 71 | 34.98 | 0.54 | 34.42 | 36.09 | 34.54 | 0.62 | 32.60 | 35.51 | − 0.44 | 0.61 | − 1.84 | 0.72 |
| CBT | 71 | 36.56 | 0.19 | 36.18 | 37.20 | 36.41 | 0.24 | 35.94 | 37.45 | − 0.15 | 0.23 | − 0.75 | 0.64 |
| CBT-PBT | 70 | 1.58 | 0.52 | 0.62 | 2.76 | 1.87 | 0.58 | 0.97 | 3.64 | 0.29 | 0.55 | − 0.92 | 1.58 |
| W + N1 | 72 | 2.33 | 1.26 | 0.27 | 5.48 | 2.36 | 1.25 | 0.18 | 5.17 | 0.03 | 1.07 | − 2.93 | 1.76 |
| N2 | 72 | 4.30 | 0.86 | 2.44 | 6.32 | 4.18 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 5.87 | -0.21 | 0.76 | − 1.94 | 1.64 |
| N3 | 72 | 1.68 | 0.77 | 0.39 | 4.82 | 1.85 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 4.63 | 0.17 | 0.48 | − 1.07 | 1.49 |
| REM | 72 | 1.62 | 0.60 | 0.10 | 2.97 | 1.56 | 0.56 | 0.30 | 2.64 | - 0.06 | 0.57 | − 1.31 | 1.22 |
HR (bpm) heart rate, MAT (°C) mattress surface temperature, PBT (°C) proximal back skin temperature, CBT (°C) core body temperature, CBT-PBT (°C) core body temperature-proximal back skin temperature-gradient, W + N1 (min/10 min) wake + sleep stage N1, N2 (min/10 min), sleep stage N2, N3 (min/10 min), slow wave sleep, REM (min/10 min), rapid eye movement sleep (for statistics including effect sizes see Suppl. Table 1a).