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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychol. 2022 Feb 19;170:108290. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108290

Table 1:

Baseline characteristics of the subset of the Sleep Heart Health Study population. Values are shown as mean ± SD, unless categorized by number and percentage. Abbreviations: SF-36 (36 item short form health survey), REM (rapid eye movement), WASO (wake after sleep onset), X probability (average matching probability of a state when the epoch is scored as that state). All parameters were included in random forest analysis.

Parameter Response Number

Gender Female 1638 (52%)
Male 1527 (48%)

Race White 2694 (85%)
Black 234 (7%)
Other 237 (7%)

Ethnicity Latinx 176 (6%)

Age (years) 62.7 ± 11.3

Marital status Married 2485 (79%)
Widowed 257 (8%)
Divorced/Separate 313 (10%)
Never Married 98 (3%)
Unknown 12 (0%)

Education level <10 years 241 (8%)
11-15 years 1622 (51%)
16-20 years 1163 (37%)
>20 years 139 (4%)

Waist circumference (cm) 96.2 ± 13.6

Body Mass Index (BMI, kg/m2) 27.9 ± 4.98

Physical Component Scale (PCS, SF-36) 47.9 ± 9.58

Mental Component Scale (MCS, SF-36) 53.3 ± 8.18

My health is excellent Definitely true 685 (22%)
Mostly true 1620 (51%)
Not sure 394 (12%)
Mostly false 283 (9%)
Definitely false 183 (6%)

During the past 4 weeks, how much of the time have you felt calm and peaceful? All of the time 267 (8%)
Most of the time 1404 (44%)
A good bit of the time 620 (20%)
Some of the time 550 (17%)
A little of the time 238 (8%)
None of the time 86 (3%)

Regular use of sleeping pills? Yes 192 (6%)

Regular use of antidepressants? Yes 218 (7%)

Use of benzodiazepines within 2 weeks of PSG? Yes 182 (6%)

Epworth Sleepiness Scale 7.70 ± 4.34

Habitual sleep duration (hours) 7.13 ± 1.15

How stressful a day today? A typical day 2122 (67%)
Less stressful than usual 568 (18%)
More stressful than usual 475 (15%)

Nicotine before bed (# products) 0.359 ± 1.36

Alcohol before bed (# drinks) 0.217 ± 0.689

Caffeine before bed (# drinks) 0.280 ± 0.654

N1 (minutes) 34.3 ± 22.5

N1 probability 53.1%

N1 (%) 8.3% ± 5.2%

N2 (minutes) 227. ± 61.3

N2 probability 84.0%

N2 (%) 55% ± 13%

N3 (minutes) 14.3 ± 21.9

N3 probability 64.9%

N3 (%) 3.5% ± 5.4%

REM (minutes) 50.1 ± 36.3

REM probability 75.4%

REM (%) 12% ± 8.5%

WASO (minutes) 86.8 ± 63.1

W probability 84.1%

WASO (%) 21% ± 15%

Sleep → Wake shifts (#) 6.5 ± 3.1

N3 → N1 or N2 shifts (#) 1.2 ± 1.4

Sleep latency (minutes) 24.1 ± 23.2

Sleep efficiency (%) 74.7 ± 15.4

Respiratory Disturbance Index 8.26 ± 12.0

Self-reported sleep quality: Light (1) vs. Deep (5) 1 272 (9%)
2 572 (18%)
3 1290 (41%)
4 740 (23%)
5 291 (9%)

Self-reported sleep quality: Restless (1) vs. Restful (5) 1 361 (11%)
2 727 (23%)
3 997 (32%)
4 749 (24%)
5 331 (10%)