Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2002"

TL;DR: Short sleep over a prolonged period may be associated with an increased risk of mortality: men and women who reported sleeping fewer than 7 h in 24 on two occasions between 4 and 7 years apart, had greater risk of dying from any cause over a 25 year period.

TL;DR: The subjective quality of sleep is disturbed as early as the first trimester of pregnancy, although total sleeping time increases, and the amount of reported sleep begins to decrease in the second trimester.

TL;DR: Insomnia is widespread in Italy and the consequences are important, and appropriate recognition and treatment of insomnia should be part of an educational program for general practitioners everywhere.

TL;DR: The ability of these new behavior change scales to predict CPAP compliance provides a new direction of research to better understand factors associated with compliance.

TL;DR: Zolpidem, at least in patients with underlying sleep disorders that cause frequent arousals, may cause or augment sleep-related eating behavior, and the importance of arriving at a specific diagnosis for insomnia complaints is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the GSAQ can aid in recognizing sleep disorders and future studies should focus on characterizing its predictive values in primary care settings.

TL;DR: Clinicians should be aware that there is tremendous variability among polysomnography technologists regarding the scoring of polysOMnograms, likely due to different rules used to score events as well as differences in the technologist's interpretation of the rules.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of coffee consumption on sleep quality and melatonin secretion were examined, and the results confirmed the widely held belief that coffee consumption interferes with sleep quantity and quality.

TL;DR: Obesity is not the cause of this increased prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in a population of premenopausal women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, and there was no correlation between obesity and severity of the OSAS.

TL;DR: The initial findings suggest that there are identifiable daytime sequelae of childhood OSA and that it is important to evaluate these daytime disturbances in making determinations about intervention.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that when sleep Bruxism is related to apnea/hypopneas, the successful treatment of these breathing abnormalities may eliminate bruxism during sleep.

TL;DR: It is concluded that among patients evaluated for SDB, higher depression scores show an association with reduced daytime alertness, which therefore may have important effects on mood.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that abnormal iron stores or metabolism may result in RLS causing insomnia in teenagers with chronic insomnia of unexplained origin is supported.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with a genetic etiology for RLS, but they do not support the presence of one simple, Mendelian-inherited major gene in most RLS families.

TL;DR: The case emphasizes the value of RBD as a clinical tell-tale sign: when isolated RBD appears in a young subject, brain-imaging studies and long-term follow-up are warranted.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of a possible rapid eye movement-sleep behavior disorder and restless legs syndrome in PD was found and the results of earlier performed surveys for sleep disruptive factors in PD were confirmed.

TL;DR: Arousals show only one side of the multi-faceted activation complexes, whereas the three subtypes of CAP provide a graded picture of arousal features from the strongest A3 subtypes, showing a prevalence of EEG desynchrony, to the weakest A1 phases, which are dominated by EEG synchrony and represent the prevalent components of CAP.

TL;DR: Electroencephalographic mapping revealed neurophysiological correlates of depression and anxiety in RLS and PLMD, respectively, which were confirmed by self-ratings of symptoms.

TL;DR: Augmentation is unrelated to either severity of RLS or doses of PPX, and there is a very low optimal therapeutic dose ofPPX in most RLS patients.

TL;DR: The prevalence of insomnia in Bambuí was high, similar to that of urban centers of developed countries; this investigation substantiated the importance of operational criteria in studies of insomnia.

TL;DR: Esophageal dyskinesia and dyspnea, which are common complications of SSc, were commonly associated with indices of sleep disruption and patients with SSc have significant disturbance of their sleep.

TL;DR: EFHM represents a pathological phenomenon which may or may not be associated with other sleep disorders, and a brainstem generator explains its distribution throughout the body and the sleep stages.

TL;DR: Pupillometry is clearly associated with differences in alertness between groups of patients, however, pupillometric assessment cannot substitute for the MSLT in most cases.

TL;DR: Contrary to previous claims, this study found little to suggest that narcolepsy is associated with schizophrenia, nor does it appear to be associated with an increased frequency of diagnosable depressive disorders.

TL;DR: This method of esophageal manometry uses a fluid-filled catheter to measure variations in transmitted intrathoracic pressure with respiration to detect cases of upper airway resistance syndrome and for distinguishing subtle central apneas from obstructive events.

TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) symptoms in older African-American and Caucasian chronic renal failure patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) was compared.

TL;DR: It is unlikely that all patients with 'growing pains' have RLS and it is likely that ' growing pains' is a heterogeneous disorder, but more work needs to be done on the potential relationship between 'Growing pains' and RLS.

TL;DR: A polysomnographic observation of the acute phase of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome is described, characterized by an alteration of the sleep-wake cycle and by the absence of non-rapid eye movement sleep.

TL;DR: Therapeutic studies of the opioids in restless legs syndrome show that the opiate receptor blocker naloxone reverses the improvement in RLS induced by the opioids, implicating the endogenous opiate system with its endorphins and enkephalins in the pathogenesis of RLS.