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[2] Currently, studies on microsleep architecture on electroencephalogram (EEG) arousals in SDB children have attracted more and more attention. [...]it is worth to compare the difference in EEG arousals between children with PS and children with OSAHS. Methods Patients One-hundred and nineteen children, including 100 boys and 19 girls, aged 4-13 years (mean age: 6.8 +- 2.0 years), who suspected suffering from SDB were considered as the experimental group; 30 children, including 24 boys and 6 girls, aged 4-13 years (mean age: 5.8 +- 2.9 years), with vocal nodules, who did not have sleep-related disorders were considered as the control group. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) criteria, an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) >5 or an obstructive apnea index (OAI) >1 together with an lowest arterial oxygen saturation (LSaO2) < 92% was diagnosis of OSAHS; an OAI < 1 and an LSaO2 >0.92 with total arousal index (ARtotI) < 11 was that of PS. EEG arousals were subclassified as follows: total arousal, the sum of all arousals divided by total sleep time; limb arousal, a sudden increase in EEG frequency following spontaneous limb movement in the absence of an apneic event or crescendo snoring; respiratory arousal, a sudden increase in EEG frequency within three breaths after termination of a respiratory apneic event; and spontaneous arousal, a sudden increase in EEG frequency in the absence of an obvious precipitating event. [3] observed that EEG arousals fragment sleep and affect sleep quality, causing daytime sleepiness, restlessness, inattention, poor school performance,...

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Title
Characteristics of Electroencephalogram Arousals of Sleep-disordered Breathing Children at Different Sleep Stages
Author
Liu, Da-Bo; Yao, Yu-Jing; Huang, Zhen-Yun; Zhong, Jian-Wen; Xu, Jia-Jian; Qiu, Shu-Yao; Liu, Shao-Feng; Yi, Xin-Hua
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Dec 5, 2016
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
ISSN
03666999
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1903893026
Copyright
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