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Sleep Disturbance And The Immunological Acute Phase Response In Hospitalized Post-Operative Adults., Jean Dorothy Humphries
Sleep Disturbance And The Immunological Acute Phase Response In Hospitalized Post-Operative Adults., Jean Dorothy Humphries
Wayne State University Dissertations
Abstract
Sleep Disturbance and the Immunological Acute Phase Response
in Postoperative Hospitalized Adults
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the subjective and objective (actigraphy) sleep patterns, the immunological acute phase response of IL1-β and TNF-α, and the physiological stress response of cortisol and systolic blood pressure in post-operative abdominal surgical patients. Nineteen subjects, 10 men and 9 women, mean age 45.63 years (SD = 11.44) were enrolled between April 2015 and March 2016. All subjects were elective major invasive abdominal surgery patients. Laparoscopic surgery occurred in 10 patients and incisional surgery occurred in 9 patients. This descriptive …