The Relationship between Sleep Disturbances in Elderly Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

Abstract

Beta blockers and caffeine could not be excluded due to its prevalent use. Our results showed significant relationship between beta blocker use and total Pittsburgh score in cases. Where 60% of participants receiving beta blocker have PSQI total score of more than 5. Also the results showed that caffeine use has no significant relationship between the study groups as regard the total Pittsburgh sleep quality index score or any significance when compared to each Pittsburgh sleep quality index component. As regards nutritional assessment, the cases showed more risk for malnutrition and malnourishment when compared to controls. These results were also compared to total Pittsburgh sleep quality index score, and showed a significant relationship between total Pittsburgh sleep quality index score and the presence of malnutrition in the cases group. Keywords: Slow wave activity - Obstructive sleep apnoea - Mini-nutritional assessment