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. 2012 Feb 24;4(1):e4. doi: 10.4081/mi.2012.e4

Table 2.

Means and standard deviations of sleep macroarchitecture by diagnoses and sex.

Sleep variables HC-M
(n=20)
HC-F
(n=32)
MDD-M
(n=20)
MDD-F
(n=32)
Total sleep time, min. 449.2±35.3 458.4±42.0 445.5±44.5 465.2±41.7
Sleep latency, min. 9.5±9.9 13.7±10.7 14.6±11.2 18.1±2 0.2
REM latency, min. 111.1±57.1 84.7±38.6 69.6±23.7 107.6±50.3
% Stage 1* 8.4±5.0 4.8±3.0 10.6±7.2 7.4±5.0
% Stage 2* 47.0±6.4 52.6±5.9 45.4±8.2 50.0±8.5
% SW (stages 3+4)* 20.8±8.1 18.0±7.7 17.9±10.5 18.3±8.7
% REM* 18.3±3.9 21.2±4.0 22.3±4.9 20.6±5.1
% awake and movement* 5.1±4.7 3.1±1.6 3.6±1.6 3.4±2.2
Sleep efficiency 93.0±4.9 93.8±2.4 93.2±2.5 93.0±4.5
Number of arousals 23.4±7.7 19.1±8.9 20.4±6.1 19.7±8.4

*Relative to total sleep time. Minutes of stages 3+4.

HC, healthy control; MDD, major depressive disorder; M, males; F, females; REM, rapid eye movement sleep; NREM, non-rapid eye movement sleep; SW, slow wave sleep.