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Re: Sleep Efficiency

Posted by Patrick Richards on December 07, 2001 at 11:54:32:

In Reply to: Sleep Efficiency posted by Alamo Joe on December 05, 2001 at 21:33:37:

Hi Joe,

My sleep book encyclopedia says that it is the amount of sleep that occurs duirng a sleep episode in relation to the amount of time available for sleep.

Usuall it recorded as total sleep time and that a sleep efficiency of greater than 80% is regarded as normal in the sleep laboratory and that those greater than 95% are indicative of abnormaly high sleep efficiency and are typically seen in patients with narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia.

Sleep efficiences of less than 80% are typical of disorders than produce a complaint of insomnia.

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