Night-to-Night Variability of Sleep Respiratory Pauses in Normal Infants

R. Flores-Guevara; Véronique Gourlet; M. Stupfel

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1052479

Neuropediatrics, Table of Contents

Neuropediatrics 1987; 18(4): 196-199
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1052479

Night-to-Night Variability of Sleep Respiratory Pauses in Normal Infants

R. Flores-Guevara¹ , Véronique Gourlet² , M. Stupfel²

¹INSERM U. 29, Centre de Recherche de Biologie du Développement Foetal et Néonatal, Hôpital Port-Royal, F-75014 Paris, France
²INSERM U. 123, Physiopathological Mechanisms of Environmental Nuisances Research Group, F-78110 Le Vésinet, France

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Abstract

Pneumograms have been recorded for several (6-14) consecutive nights in 11 normal children aged 1-257 days. They enabled to assess greater or equal to 5 seconds respiratory pauses. No statistical differences were found between the number of respiratory pauses per hour recorded during subsequent nights on each subject. Statistically significant (p < 0.001) differences were found between the children either in the number of pauses or in their intervals. However, the experimental protocol does not allow to assess whether these discrepancies have a genetic, or maturational, or eventually an environmental origin.

Key words

Infants - Respiratory pauses (or respiratory apneas) - Sleep - Pneumogram

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