Table 5.
Wrist temperature indices.
| Parameters | Healthy younger adults (n=10) | Healthy older adults (n=10) | Older adults living with dementia (n=8) | ||||
| Average wrist temperature parameters (°C), mean (SD) | |||||||
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Sleep temperature | 34.98 (0.55) | 34.97 (0.34) | 34.66 (0.53) | |||
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Wake temperature | 32.49 (0.83) | 32.94 (0.67) | 33.40 (1.03) | |||
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Sleep and wake temperature difference | 2.48 (0.88) | 2.04 (0.70) | 1.26 (0.82; P=.02) | |||
| Cosinor analysis | |||||||
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MESORa (°C), mean (SD) | 33.34 (0.61) | 33.65 (0.46) | 33.90 (0.84) | |||
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Amplitude (°C), mean (SD) | 1.72 (0.57) | 1.45 (0.50) | 0.93 (0.59; P=.03) | |||
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Acrophase (min), mean (SD) | 246 (59) | 183 (91; P=.04) | 44 (145; P<.001) | |||
| Nonparametric analyses (°C), mean (SD) | |||||||
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Interday stability | 0.53 (0.10) | 0.52 (0.16) | 0.32 (0. 19; P=.02) | |||
aMESOR: midline-estimating statistic of rhythm.