TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, cilt.23, sa.4, ss.463-472, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
Introduction: Age-related changes in sleep attract increased attention from researchers and are studied in the context of micro- and macrostructures. Macrostructures include sleep onset, total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake time after sleep onset, and non-rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement sleep percentages, latencies and durations. Sleep microstructures refer to a cyclic alternating pattern.The present study aims to investigate how sleep structures in older and middle-aged patients are affected by the widespread disease of obstructive sleep apnea. The authors believe that it provide additional information about sleep disorder pathogenesis.