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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Pulmonol. 2016 Jun 30;52(1):84–90. doi: 10.1002/ppul.23513

TABLE 3.

Respiratory Events Associated With Contacts, Across Sleep-Wake States

Sleep-wake state Number of contacts1 Hypopnea2
Apnea
Desaturation
n (% of total contacts that provoked hypopnea) n (% of total contacts that provoked apnea) n (% of total contacts that provoked desaturation)
Awake 173 14 (8)   6 (3) 41 (24)
Active sleep 171 48 (28) 22 (13) 29 (17)
Quiet sleep 135 21 (16) 9 (7) 20 (15)
Indeterminate 101 11 (11) 9 (9) 26 (26)
1

Contacts were evenly distributed across sleep-wake states (P = 0.99).

2

Contact with infants in active sleep were statistically most likely provoke hypopnea, compared with contacts during other sleep-wake states (P < 0.001).