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Type:	Artigo de Periódico
Title:	Gender differences in sleep patterns and sleep complaints of elite athletes
Authors:	Andressa Silva Fernanda Veruska Narciso João Paulo Pereira Rosa Dayane Ferreira Rodrigues Aline Ângela da Silva Cruz Sérgio Tufik Jorge José Bichara Fernanda Viana Jorge Jose Bichara Sebastian Rafael Dias Pereira Sidney Cavalcante da Silva Marco Túlio De Mello
Abstract:	OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to investigate the gender differences for sleep complaints, patterns and disorders of elite athletes during preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. METHODS: The study included 146 athletes from the Brazilian Olympic Team (male: n=86; 59%; female: n=60; 41%). The assessment of the Olympic athletes’ sleep took place in 2015, during the preparation period for the Rio Olympic Games. The athletes underwent a single polysomnography (PSG) evaluation. Sleep specialists evaluated the athletes and asked about their sleep complaints during a clinical consultation. In this evaluation week, the athletes did not take part in any training or competitions. RESULTS: The prevalence of sleep complaints was 53% of the athletes during the medical consultation, the most prevalent being insufficient sleep/waking up tired (32%), followed by snoring (21%) and insomnia (19.2%). In relation to the sleep pattern findings, the men had significantly higher sleep latency and wake after sleep onset than the women (p=0.004 and p=0.002, respectively). The sleep efficiency and sleep stages revealed that men had a lower percentage of sleep efficiency and slow wave sleep than the women (p=0.001 and p=0.05, respectively). CONCLUSION: Most athletes reported some sleep complaints, with men reporting more sleep complaints than women in the clinical evaluation. The PSG showed that 36% of all athletes had a sleep disorder with a greater reduction in sleep quality in men than in women.
Subject:	Sono Atletas Esportes Distúrbios do sono Gênero e saúde
language:	eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country:	Brasil
Publisher:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials:	UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department:	EEF - DEPARTAMENTO DE ESPORTES
Rights:	Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi:	https://doi.org/10.5935/1984-0063.20190084
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1843/43618
Issue Date:	Oct-2019
metadata.dc.url.externa:	https://sleepscience.org.br/details/677/en-US
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof:	Sleep Science
Appears in Collections:	Artigo de Periódico

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