Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 53, Issue 4 855-858, Copyright © 1982 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of short-term sleep loss on breathing

K. R. Cooper and B. A. Phillips

Loss of sleep is common among patients with respiratory disorders. We studied ventilatory performance in 15 normal subjects to determine whether a single night of sleep loss would have any detectable effect on breathing. Spirometry and hypercapnic ventilatory response testing were performed daily for 3 consecutive days with no sleep permitted between testing on days 1 and 2. We found a small but significant decline in forced vital capacity and maximal voluntary ventilation and a 20% decrease in hypercapnic ventilatory response slope after sleep loss (P less than 0.05). We conclude that sleep loss results in a significant deterioration in ventilatory performance, which may be clinically important to patients with respiratory diseases.

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