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Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2003"


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3,630 citations


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TL;DR: Modification of the criteria for the diagnosis of restless legs syndrome is modified to better reflect that increased body of knowledge, as well as to clarify slight confusion with the wording of the original criteria.

2,834 citations


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TL;DR: This scale meets performance criteria for a brief, patient completed instrument that can be used to assess RLS severity for purposes of clinical assessment, research, or therapeutic trials and supports a finding that RLS is a relatively uniform disorder in which the severity of the basic symptoms is strongly related to their impact on the patient's life.

1,439 citations


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TL;DR: Melatonin can be considered as a possible sole or add-on therapy in select patients with RBD and persistent benefit with melatonin beyond 1 year of therapy occurred in most but not all patients.

343 citations


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TL;DR: This preliminary report indicates changes in brain morphology in OSA, in the hippocampus, a key area for cognitive processing, is indicated.

277 citations


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TL;DR: The underestimation of sleep time is not a generic characteristic that separates all insomnia sufferers from normal sleepers, and sleep setting, personality traits, and perhaps constitutional factors appear to influence perceptions of sleep and wake time duration.

199 citations


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TL;DR: AEDs have differing effects on sleep structure, which can be beneficial or detrimental, and consideration of these potential effects is important in maintaining optimal sleep in patients with epilepsy.

196 citations


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TL;DR: The study suggests that the use of a depression scale in the daily routine of diagnosing and treating sleep disorders should be encouraged in order to optimise diagnosis and therapy in patients with (chronic) sleep disorders.

194 citations


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TL;DR: The antioxidant capacity in serum from OSA patients and healthy people was evaluated in order to confirm the hypothesis that there is a relationship between oxidative stress and OSA.

161 citations


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TL;DR: Treatment of OSA in patients with epilepsy may improve seizure control and a large randomized placebo-controlled trial appear warranted.

137 citations


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TL;DR: The objectives of this review are to determine what the Epworth sleepiness scale actually measures and whether that measurement truly reflects objective sleepiness, and to determine if the ESS can be used to diagnose pathological sleepiness and follow its response to treatment.

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TL;DR: The Watch_PAT is a device that can detect OSA with reasonable accuracy and may be a useful method to diagnose OSA.

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Vahid Mohsenin1
TL;DR: Men tend to have a larger but more collapsible airway during mandibular movement than women and this, in part, may play a role in the positional dependency and severity of OSA in men.

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TL;DR: As a common indication for AT, OSA now rivals recurrent throat infection in children aged 5.0-12.9 years, and no more than 12% of school-aged children who undergo AT for OSA have polysomnography prior to the procedure.

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TL;DR: These changes include shortening of the maxillary, ethmoid, palatal and mandibular bones, acute oral cavity-skull base angulation, pharyngeal collapse and posterior migration of the tongue into the pharynx are shown.

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TL;DR: The IRLS can be evaluated using separate subscale scores: one for symptoms and the other symptom impact, and the relative merits of these subscales need to be evaluated in different situations in further studies, in especially the ones involving assessing responsiveness to treatment effects.

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TL;DR: Consistent with previous results for objective and subjective measures of sleepiness, modafinil used adjunctively improved performance on a test of behavioral alertness and reduced functional impairments in patients with OSA/HS who were regular users of nCPAP therapy but still experiencing sleepiness.

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TL;DR: Topiramate may be of benefit for patients with NES or SRED in reducingNocturnal eating, improving nocturnal sleep, and producing weight loss.

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TL;DR: The SDB symptoms, AA race, and low SES all vary to some extent with poor school performance, but the only consistent and independent covariate of performance is SES.

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TL;DR: Hypocretin dysfunction is not the 'final common pathway' in the pathophysiology of most hypersomnolent syndromes that fall on the borderline for a diagnosis of narcolepsy, but a common hypothalamic, hypocretin-independent dysfunction may be present in some of these syndrome.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of modafinil on clinical manifestations of narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia in children with excessive daytime somnolence (EDS) were investigated.

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TL;DR: The results indicate that the previously suggested cutoffs for OSA may be too high for this specific population, and suggest screening cutoffs of 29 for men and 26 for women.

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TL;DR: It is concluded that automatic analysis of peripheral arterial tonometry signal derived from the ambulatory device Watch_PAT100 can accurately identify arousals from sleep in a simple and time saving fashion.

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TL;DR: There seems to exist a definite psychological profile for patients with delayed sleep-phase syndrome, with an excessive defense mechanism that increases nervousness and develops neurosis, and a high level of intellectual aspiration with compulsivity that makes the patients feel self-defeated, powerless and disappointed.

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TL;DR: The prevalence of restless legs syndrome was 6.6% in patients on hemodialysis; and 0% in controls, which is much lower than that reported from the West.

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TL;DR: The results of this study suggest SEs in PD patients occur upon a background of excessive daytime sleepiness and are unrelated to nocturnal sleep or use of a specific DA.

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TL;DR: Despite the high prevalence of reported sleep disturbance in children with ADHD, stimulant medication appears to have minimal effects on subjective and objective sleep characteristics inChildren with reported ADHD.

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TL;DR: Prevalence of PFO in subjects with OSA is significantly higher than in normal controls and the shunt is frequently present only during Valsalva maneuver.

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TL;DR: Excessive daytime sleepiness was more common in PD patients as compared to controls, and higher ESS scores correlated significantly with higher H&Y stage and higher UPDRS (part I, III and total) scores.

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TL;DR: In this group of young adult males (mean age 19 years), there was a better overall adaptation to the early morning sleep, perhaps related to the general tendency in most adolescents to present some phase-delay during late teen-aged years.