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Prevalence of sleep‐related respiratory disorders in 101 schizophrenic inpatients
Author(s) -
TAKAHASHI KENICHI,
SHIMIZU TETSUO,
SUGITA TOSHIO,
SAITO YASUSHI,
TAKAHASHI YUJI,
HISHIKAWA YASUO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb01046.x
Subject(s) - ambulatory , medicine , pill , respiratory system , sleep (system call) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , physical therapy , computer science , pharmacology , operating system
We studied the prevalence of sleep‐related respiratory disorders (SRRD) in 101 schizophrenic inpatients (64 men and 37 women) and in 48 healthy volunteers (control group:22 men and 26 women) using ambulatory pulse‐oximetric devices. Those with a desaturation index (DI) 5 were classified as having SRRD. The prevalence of SRRD in the schizophrenic patients (men 21.9%, women 13.5%) was not higher than that in the control group (men 30.7%, women 13.6%). Gender difference in the prevalence of SRRD was not observed in schizophrenic group. This was probably because the schizophrenic women took an increased amount of sleeping pills. Neuroleptics were shown to be least effected on SRRD.