Table 2.

Sleep parameters among diabetic neuropathy patients (group I), diabetic patients without neuropathy (group II) and healthy control (group III)

	Group I		Group II		Group III		ANOVA
	Range	Mean ± SD	Range	Mean ± SD	Range	Mean ± SD	f value	p value
Mean latency MSLT (min)	4–17	9.2 ± 4.03	10–18	15.1 ± 3.44	12–19	16.30 ± 2.21	17.27	< 0.0001*
Sleep period time (hours)	5.2–8.7	6.79 ± 1.06	5.3–8.6	6.79 ± 1.03	5.2–8.7	6.78 ± 1.09	0.00066	0.999
Total sleep time (hours)	4.8–8.5	6.29 ± 1.07	5. –8.4	6.70 ± 1.04	5.2–8.5	6.68 ± 1.05	0.692	0.5068
Sleep latency (min)	4–7	8.45 ± 4.04	7–35	24.70 ± 9.38	8–35	26.3 ± 8.82	29.96	< 0.0001*
Sleep efficiency (%)	49–85	63.3 ± 11.78	73–88	80.6 ± 4.27	77–94	85.8 ± 6.14	24.11	< 0.0001*
Sleep fragmentation (cycles/night)	7–43	18.35 ± 9.06	6–15	9.4 ± 2.71	6–11	8.2 ± 1.54	10.30	0.0003*
Apnea Hypopnea Index (/hour)	3.1–83.3	31.32 ± 16.4	1.2–22.1	6.57 ± 7.01	1.6–19.2	5.97 ± 6.14	16.199	< 0.0001*
Pulse Transit Time (msec)	121–245	184 ± 23.2	154–276	232 ± 12.3	178–281	241 ± 13.2	13.6	< 0.0001*
Desaturation index (/hour)	3–32	14.9 ± 9.7	2–8	3.8 ± 1.87	2–7	3.7 ± 1.6	12.55	< 0.0001*
Lowest O2 saturation (%)	71–95	85.15 ± 3.78	87–94	90.9 ± 2.55	87–95	92.5 ± 2.50	6.522	0.0023*
REM latency (min)	64–105	84.7 ± 12.38	63–102	85.4 ± 11.82	65–104	85.70 ± 12	0.0259	0.974
REM % of TST	8–21	14 ± 4.30	18–25	21.8 ± 2.04	18–27	21.1 ± 2.02	24.10	< 0.0001*
Arousal index (/hour)	6–35	13.8 ± 7.39	3–14	6.5 ± 3.02	3–11	5.5 ± 2.63	9.585	0.0004*
Snore index (/hour)	23–632	259.3 ± 174	10–67	29.9 ± 19.8	9–47	17 ± 11.2	17.76	< 0.0001*
Snore % TST	4–52	23.4 ± 14.27	3–13	6.1 ± 3.07	2–10	4.6 ± 3.27	14.93	< 0.0001*
PLMs index (/hour)	17–91	50.3 ± 22.6	5–27	14.4 ± 6.73	4–18	9.9 ± 6.66	27.60	< 0.0001*

MSLT multiple sleep latency test, PLMs periodic limb movements, REM rapid eye movement, TST total sleep time

*Significant