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High Prevalence of Sleep Disturbance in Cirrhosis

table 4. Quality of Sleep Assessed by Wrist Actigraphy

	Healthy Controls	Cirrhosis Satisfactory Sleep	Cirrhosis Unsatisfactory Sleep

Number of subjects	20	13	7
Time in bed (min.)	434 ± 17	472 ± 25	434 ± 17
Sleep efficiency (%)	93.8 ± 0.8	91.7 ± 1	80.4 ± 2.5^*
Awakenings (n)	3.3 ± 0.5	4.5 ± 0.5	9.8 ± 1.5^*
WASO (min)	15.6 ± 2.9	26.4 ± 2.9	58.9 ± 5.2^*

Abbreviation: WASO: wake after sleep onset. ^* P < .05 (ANOVA and Dunn’s test).