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. 2005 Dec 8;102(51):18757–18762. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509281102

Table 1. Descriptive statistics for study participants (n = 78).

Statistic Mean SD Range %
Age 73.4 6.89 61–90
Years of education 14.44 3.07 8–23
Marital status
   Married 23.1
   Widowed 55.1
   Divorced 15.4
   Never married 3.8
Median pretax family income, $ 25,000 16,500 6,000–80,000
Waist/hip ratio 0.84 0.08 0.67–1.06
No. of medications 3.78 1.33 3–13
No. of chronic health conditions 2.14 1.30 0–5
Drinking history 40.8
Smoking history 46.2
Total time in bed, min 475.96 64.70 295.33–640.33
Total sleep duration, min 408.64 60.11 270–566
Latency to sleep onset, min 22.19 15.30 3.33–75
Latency to REM onset, min 66.81 26.57 24–150
Percent time awake (of time in bed) 3.62 1.05 1.50–5.97
Percent time in NREM sleep 54.52 11.78 24.33–78.76
Percent time in REM sleep 30.08 9.22 9.57–53.65
Percent time body moving 1.24 0.62 0.15–2.68
Sleep efficiency (time asleep/time in bed) 0.86 0.08 0.65–0.98
PSQI global score (scale range 0–21) 6.31 3.05 1–16
Score > 5 67.9
Positive relations with others (scale range 14–84) 69.1 10.7 31–84
Plasma IL-6, pg/ml 1.33 1.54 0.42–12.01