Table 5.
Fatigue and daytime sleepiness and potential underlying causes
| Difficulty Sleeping | P-value | Nycturia | P-value | Snoring | P-value | Male Hypogonadism | P-value | Hypothyroidism | P-value | Untreated Vitamin D Deficiency | P-value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | + | - | + | - | + | Ta | UTb | - | + | - | + | |||||||
| N | 84 | 9 | 66 | 28 | 64 | 32 | 24 | 31 | 96 | 19 | 85 | 28 | ||||||
| Fatigue | 18 (22%) | 4 (44%) | 0.1 | 12 (18%) | 11 (41%) | 0.03 | 11 (18%) | 12 (41%) | 0.02 | 4 (19%) | 7 (28%) | 0.5 | 18 (23%) | 5 (31%) | 0.5 | 15 (22%) | 8 (32%) | 0.3 |
| Daytime sleepiness | 32 (38%) | 8 (89%) | 0.003 | 23 (35%) | 17 (61%) | 0.02 | 18 (29%) | 22 (71%) | <0.001 | 7 (33%) | 17 (65%) | 0.03 | 35 (44%) | 6 (35%) | 0.5 | 25 (36%) | 16 (62%) | 0.02 |
Physical complaints were scored on a 5-point Likert scale. A score of 3 or higher was seen as clinically relevant (“+”), a score below 3 was seen as not clinically relevant (“-“).
Abbreviations: T, treated; UT, untreated.
a Treated with testosterone replacement therapy.
b Untreated hypogonadism.