[Gastric and small intestine motility in patients with duodenal ulcer and sleep disorders].

Fasting motility of the stomach and small intestine and that after carbohydrate, protein and fat meals were studied with tubes furnished with tensometers over 24-50 hours in 7 healthy and 31 duodenal ulcer males. Over the first night 7 healthy and 17 ulcer subjects were subjected to polygraphic sleep registration including electroencephalogram. Sleep quality was assessed by means of biorhythmologic questionnaire. Time co-incidence was registered for the most active phases of 90-min rhythms of the sleep and periodic gastrointestinal activity. In patients with poor sleep the pattern of periodic motility cycles was abnormal, motility of the jejunal proximal part was inhibited in some time intervals after carbohydrate and protein meals. All the patients with ulcer and sleep disorders received recommendations to take therapeutic measures for sleep normalization.