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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Hypertens. 2020 Mar;38(3):448–455. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002283

Table 2.

Study Sample Sleep Characteristics Stratified by Insomnia (n=399).

Total No Insomnia Insomnia
N (%) 399 247 (61.9) 152(38.1)
Habitual sleep time, hours 7.1±0.9 7.2±0.8* 6.9±0.9
Most of time satisfied with sleep, N (%) 269(67.4) 203(82.2)** 66(43.4)
Difficulty getting back to sleep, N (%) 53(13.3) 0 53(34.9)
Difficulty falling sleep, N (%) 46(11.5) 0 46(30.3)
Early morning awakenings, N (%) 59(14.8) 0 59(38.8)
Repeated nocturnal awakenings, N (%) 111(27.8) 0 111(73.0)
Nap >1 time per day 239 (59.9) 141 (57.1) 98 (64.5)
PSG assessed markers of insomnia
Sleep latency, hour 0.2±0.2 0.2±0.2 20.6±19.7
Waking after sleep onset, hour 1.0±0.7 1.0±0.7 1.0±0.6
Total sleep time, hour 6.5±1.0 6.6±1.0* 6.3±0.9
Sleep efficiency, % 83.9±9.6 84.6±9.8* 82.8±9.0
% of Stage REM Sleep 18.1±6.1 18.2±5.8 17.8±6.5
% of stage 1 sleep 9.9±6.3 9.9±6.1 10.0±6.7
% of stage 2 sleep 64.2±9.0 64.0±8.41 64.6±9.9
% of stage3/4 sleep 7.7±7.2 7.9±7.1 7.5±7.3

Continuous variables were presented as Mean± standard deviation.

REM, rapid eye movement.

*

P <0.05 for comparison between not-insomnia and insomnia groups.

#

No. of symptoms was treated as continuous variable.

##

Symptom-days per month can range from 0 (no symptoms reported) to 100 (=4*25, i.e., all four insomnia symptoms reported as “almost always”)

**

P <0.01 for comparison between not-insomnia and insomnia groups.