Table 2. Sleep parameters of patients with acute diverticulitis both during nights of the disease and during remission night.

Values are medians and interquartile ranges in the brackets. P-values for Wilcoxon’s signed rank test for study nights during diverticulitis compared to remission night (study night 3).

	Study night 1		Study night 2		Study night 3
	Median	p-value	Median	p-value	Median
N1 (min)	28 (24–40)	0.169	39 (32–51)	0.722	40 (32–52)
N2 (min)	185 (122–199)	0.477	147 (138–161)	0.424	165 (146–191)
N3 (min)	88 (73–102)	0.423	83 (50–103)	0.477	87 (74–101)
Non REM (min)	285 (242–317)	0.091	284 (264–290)	0.062	293 (286–323)
REM (min)	60 (42–84)	0.016	73 (47–92)	0.068	90 (76–112)
W (min)	119 (92–184)	0.006	106 (94–155)	0.014	89 (61–109)
Sleep onset (min)	39 (26–47)	0.248	26 (19–34)	0.594	29 (15–52)
WASO (min)	78 (55–142)	0.005	86 (68–120)	0.003	50 (28–68)
Awakening (number)	19 (17–27)	0.266	24 (23–29)	0.305	26 (19–31)
TST (min)	361 (297–388)	0.006	374 (326–386)	0.014	391 (371–419)
N1 of TST (%)	9.9 (6.0–12.5)	0.858	11.5 (8.5–14.1)	0.514	9.3 (7.7–14.5)
N2 of TST (%)	47.4 (39.5–54.1)	0.398	45.3 (37.1–52.8)	0.449	42.8 (38.8–45.5)
N3 of TST (%)	22.1 (19.5–27.5)	0.929	23.8 (18.5–26.8)	0.610	21.9 (19.5–26.1)
NREM of TST (%)	82.5 (76.5–87.5)	0.032	80.6 (75.5–86.5)	0.139	75.5 (72.5–78.0)
REM of TST (%)	17.5 (12.5–23.5)	0.036	19.4 (13.5–24.5)	0.139	24.5 (22.0–27.6)

Notes.

Nx

stage x sleep

REM

rapid eye movement sleep

W

wake time

WASO

wake after sleep onset

TST

total sleep time