A Prospective Video-Polysomnographic Analysis of Movements during Physiological Sleep in 100 Healthy Sleepers.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Video-polysomnography (v-PSG) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of sleep disorders. Quantitative assessment of type and distribution of physiological movements during sleep for the differentiation between physiological and pathological motor activity is lacking. We performed a systematic and detailed analysis of movements during physiological sleep using v-PSG technology.

Design

Prospective v-PSG investigation.

Setting

Academic referral center sleep laboratory.

Participants

One hundred healthy sleepers aged 19-77 years recruited from a representative population sample after a two-step screening.

Interventions

N/A.

Measurements and results

All subjects underwent v-PSG. In all cases where electromyographic activity > 100 msec d

SUBMITTER: Stefani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4531416 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature