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. 2013 May 16;144(2):549–557. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-0088

Table 4.

—Polysomnographic Variables by Sleep Diagnoses

Variable Overall (N = 110) Insomnia (n = 28) Comorbid (n = 42) OSA (n = 27) Control Subjects (n = 13) F P Value
SOL, min 10.3 ± 15.3 12.9 ± 22.6 12.6 ± 15.2 5.3 ± 4.9 7.5 ± 6.0 1.72 .168
REM latency, min 114.6 ± 78.3 145.1 ± 93.2a 114.7 ± 77.2 79.6 ± 54.4a 121.0 ± 66.3 3.47 < .05
TST, min 422.9 ± 57.1 422.7 ± 50.7 421.9 ± 59.7 420.1 ± 64.1 432.4 ± 51.8 0.14 .935
Sleep efficiency, % 91.3 ± 6.7 90.6 ± 9.0 90.3 ± 7.0 92.4 ± 3.5 93.7 ± 4.0 1.25 .296
Stage N1, % 11.3 ± 7.0 9.4 ± 4.7 11.8 ± 5.5 13.8 ± 11.0 8.7 ± 3.3 2.51 .063
Stage N2, % 43.5 ± 9.1 44.1 ± 8.8 43.3 ± 9.6 43.4 ± 10.3 43.1 ± 5.8 0.06 .981
Stage N3, % 19.7 ± 9.2 20.7 ± 9.1 18.8 ± 8.6 18.9 ± 10.7 21.7 ± 8.3 0.53 .660
Stage R, % 18.6 ± 8.3 16.7 ± 6.4 17.7 ± 6.2 21.4 ± 12.4 20.1 ± 5.9 1.88 .137
WASO, min 38.0 ± 29.0 41.3 ± 40.1 41.9 ± 28.0 33.6 ± 19.6 27.7 ± 16.6 1.14 .338
Arousal index 21.8 ± 16.7 15.5 ± 10.3a 22.3 ± 13.5 31.2 ± 25.0a,b 14.8 ± 5.1b 5.42 < .01
Apnea-hypopnea index 13.4 ± 17.3 2.0 ± 1.4a,b 14.7 ± 11.1a,c,d 28.7 ± 24.5b,c,e 1.9 ± 1.5d,e 20.06 < .001
Desaturation, % 86.0 ± 6.2 90.4 ± 3.8a,b 84.0 ± 5.2a,c 83.3 ± 7.3b,d 88.8 ± 4.7c,d 11.27 < .001
Self-reported sleep duration, h 5.3 ± 1.7 5.5 ± 2.0 5.0 ± 1.3 5.4 ± 1.7 5.8 ± 2.0 0.88 .457

Data are presented as mean ± SD. Desaturation = minimum recorded oximetry value during sleep; REM = rapid eye movement; SOL = sleep onset latency; TST = total sleep time; WASO = wakefulness after sleep onset. See Table 1 legend for expansion of other abbreviation.

a-e

Groups with the same letter(s) represent significant differences as tested by one-way analysis of variance with post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction.