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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hypertens. 2009 Nov 5;23(1):62–69. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2009.202

Table 2.

Relationships between baseline characteristics, sleep duration, and insomnia

Baseline characteristics Sleep duration in hours P value Mean insomnia
score (mean (s.d.))
P value
≤5 6 7–8 ≥9
n (%) 363 (7.4) 946 (19.3) 3,240 (66.0) 364 (7.4)
Age in years
  32–39 16 22 23 19 <0.0001 6.06 (2.3) <0.0001
  40–49 28 35 33 22 6.54 (2.4)
  50–59 25 22 22 15 7.15 (2.5)
  60–69 14 12 12 14 7.23 (2.7)
  70–79 13 7 8 20 7.43 (2.8)
  80–86 4 3 3 11 7.62 (2.8)
Sex
  Women 64 62 64 63 0.5409 6.98 (2.6) <0.0001
  Men 36 38 36 37 6.39 (2.4)
Race/ethnicity
  Caucasian 87 90 93 88 <0.0001 6.84 (2.5) <0.0001
  Non-Caucasian 13 10 7 12 6.05 (2.7)
Education
  >High school graduate 43 29 26 44 <0.0001 7.08 (2.8) <0.0001
  High school graduate 57 71 74 56 6.64 (2.4)
Body weight
  Underweight (BMI ≤18.5) 4 3 3 7 <0.0001 7.06 (2.6) 0.3701
  Normal weight (BMI >18.5 and <25) 42 47 53 48 6.79 (2.5)
  Overweight (BMI ≥25 and <30) 37 35 32 34 6.72 (2.5)
  Obese (BMI ≥30) 17 15 12 11 6.75 (2.6)
Diabetes at baseline
  Yes 6 3 3 4 0.0086 7.79 (3.1) <0.0001
  No 94 97 97 96 6.74 (2.5)
Alcohol abstinent
  Yes 42 32 33 47 <0.0001 6.88 (2.8) 0.0320
  No 58 68 67 53 6.72 (2.4)
Cigarettes per day
  = 0 65 66 70 74 0.0141 6.87 (2.5) 0.0001
  >0 and <20 12 10 11 8 6.56 (2.6)
  ≥20 2 24 19 18 6.53 (2.5)
Physical activity
  2-Low 15 7 8 16 <0.0001 7.57 (2.9) <0.0001
  3 19 17 18 19 7.03 (2.5)
  4 34 43 44 41 6.78 (2.4)
  5 21 20 20 18 6.45 (2.4)
  6-High 11 13 11 6 6.22 (2.5)

BMI, body mass index.