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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2013 Oct 11;231(2):10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.09.033. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.09.033

Table 1.

Anthropometrics and sleep profiles of study population.

Variable Controls (N=8) OSA (N=8) P value
Age (yrs) 36.5 ± 4.8 39.7 ± 10.8 NS
BMI (kg/m2) 30.0 ± 4.07 33.0 ± 3.7 NS
Baseline SpO2 96.9 ± 0.8 97.14 ± 1.06 NS
AHI (events/hr) 0.6 ± 0.7 47.9 ± 23.8 <0.0001
Mean nocturnal SpO2 96.0 ± 0.92 93.8 ± 1.86 0.01
Lowest nocturnal SpO2 90.16 ± 3.68 67.42 ± 19.07 0.005
% of sleep time with SpO2>90% 99.95 ± 0.07 91.62 ± 9.94 0.03
Arousal Index (events/hr) 15.87 ± 6.02 45.87 ± 15.52 <0.0001

Data presented as mean values ± SD. P-values for unpaired t-tests. BMI – body mass index; SpO2 – blood oxygen saturation; AHI – apnea/hypopnea index.