Chest, Vol 96, 747-751, Copyright © 1989 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Consistency of respiratory measurements from night to night during the sleep of elderly men

WR Aber, AJ Block, DW Hellard and WB Webb
Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.

Fourteen healthy elderly men had polysomnography performed on two consecutive nights to assess the consistency of sleep and breathing from night to night. The reported first-night effect was seen on electroencephalographic sleep, leading to lighter or fitful sleep on the first night. Mean values for apneas, hypopneas, and oxygen desaturations did not change from night 1 to night 2. Five of 14 subjects would have changed classification from night to night if a cutoff of five apneas and hypopneas per hour were used to define normality. Because this numerical cutoff may not be valid in the elderly, the clinical significance of such a changing classification is not clear.

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