. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2014 Feb 7;15(5):541–549. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.01.010

Table 1.

Demographic and polysomnographic characteristics of subjects.

	Control (N=13)	0SA (N=14)	t-test (p-value)
Age (years)	7.5 ± 0.8	5.9 ± 0.6	0.11
Gender (boy,girl)	7,6	7,7	N/A
BMI, z-score	0.6 ± 0.3	1.2 ± 0.5	0.27
AHI (events/hr/total sleep time)	0.4 ± 0.1	23.3 ± 5.3	0.002

Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; AHI = obstructive apnea-lnypopnea index; OSA = obstructive sleep apnea. Where applicable, results are presented as means ±SEM.