Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2009"

TL;DR: This study is the first apnea survey of a large metropolitan area in South America identifying a higher prevalence of OSAS than found in other epidemiological studies and can be explained by the use of the probabilistic sampling process achieving a very low polysomnography refusal rate.

TL;DR: Overall, this study found that good sleep hygiene practices are associated with better sleep across several age ranges, and support the importance of common US based recommendations that children of all ages should fall asleep independently, go to bed before 9:00 PM, have an established bedtime routine, include reading as part of their bed time routine, refrain from caffeine, and sleep in bedrooms without televisions.

TL;DR: Implementing universal screening for OSA is feasible and can identify undiagnosed OSA in many surgical patients, and is prevalent in adult surgical patients.

TL;DR: It is indicated that insomnia is associated with significant morbidity in terms of health problems and health-care utilization, work absenteeism and reduced productivity, and risk of non-motor-vehicle accidents.

TL;DR: A significant proportion of the population with sleep complaints do not fit into DSM-IV and ICSD classifications, suggesting that multidimensional measures are needed.

TL;DR: The incidence of insomnia is higher in older adults than younger adults, but is most often associated with other age-related conditions, rather than age per se.

TL;DR: There is a need to more clearly understand the mechanisms involved in regulating sleep duration and patterns and to identify high-risk individuals who are in greatest need of preventive strategies.

TL;DR: In Japan, the developer-authorized Japanese version of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale provides reliable and valid information on daytime sleepiness and researchers who use the ESS with other populations should combine their knowledge of local conditions with the results of psychometric tests.

TL;DR: A variety of conditions, including cramps, positional discomfort, and local leg pathology can satisfy all four diagnostic criteria for RLS and thereby "mimic" RLS by satisfying theFour diagnostic criteria.

TL;DR: Nocturia is a frequently overlooked cause of poor sleep in the elderly and may warrant targeted interventions, along with female gender and other medical and psychiatric conditions.

TL;DR: This is the first double-blinded, placebo-controlled study to demonstrate statistically significant improvement in RLS symptoms using oral iron therapy in patients with low-normal ferritin.

TL;DR: Short and long sleeping times are associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes/IGT, independent of several covariates, and results suggest that sleep duration may represent a novel risk factor for type 2abetes/IGt.

TL;DR: In spite of the subjective complaints in sleep quality of concussed athletes, no change was observed in objective sleep characteristics, however, concussions were associated with an increase in delta and a reduction in alpha power in the waking EEG.

TL;DR: Poor sleep is common in patients with multiple sclerosis, representing an independent predictor of QoL, and patients with MS who are poor sleepers should receive immediate assessment and treatment, bearing in mind that other clinical conditions can disrupt nocturnal sleep.

TL;DR: The Cambridge-Hopkins RLS questionnaire provides a reasonable level of sensitivity and specificity for ascertainment of RLS in population-based studies.

TL;DR: If childhood sleep problems indeed increase the probability of substance use onset, greater attention by parents to sleep problems in children and adolescents would potentially have ameliorative long-term effects.

TL;DR: OSA is a significant public health problem in the middle-aged Indian population across the socioeconomic spectrum and is associated with some of the well known risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

TL;DR: Different sleep disorders seem to address specific ADHD phenotypes and correlate with severity of symptoms as in sleep related movement disorders occurring in Hyperactive/Impulsive and Combined ADHD subtypes.

TL;DR: Belonging to the evening-type is regarded as a risk factor for sleep disorders and its positive predictive value should be correctly assessed, and normative scores standardized in such a way they reflect the effects of age, gender and culture are needed.

TL;DR: The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children was translated, adapted and validated for Brazilian Portuguese, and it presented internal consistency and convergent and discriminatory validity.

TL;DR: It is suggested that patients afflicted with sleep complaints are more likely to suffer from concomitant headaches, depressive symptoms, and irritability.

TL;DR: Sleep disturbance and poor mental health status increase each other's onset risk.

TL;DR: High-dose IV iron failed to demonstrate the robust changes reported in three prior open-label studies, and was stopped at this planned break-point given the lack of both adequate power and any indication for clinically significant benefit.

TL;DR: Results suggest children with ADHD have reduced sleep quantity and more disturbed sleep on actigraphic measures, reduced sleep quality on the self report, and more problematic behaviors on the parent report.

TL;DR: Surgical treatment for OSA in children has been shown to be at least partially effective at normalizing endothelial function, reducing levels of inflammatory markers, and improving lipid profile, the apnea-hypopnea index and sleep fragmentation.

TL;DR: Both acute and chronic intermittent sleep deprivation exacerbate colonic inflammation, and sleep deprivation could be an environmental trigger that predisposes IBD patients to develop flare ups and a more severe disease course.

TL;DR: From different factors investigated by uni- and multivariate analyses, severity of RLS and depressive symptoms had the most significant impact on HRQoL and sleep deficits, the duration of the disease and net household income were identified as predictors for different EQ-5D outcome scores.

TL;DR: Bright blue-enriched polychromatic light is no more effective than standard bright light therapy for phase advancing circadian rhythms at commonly used therapeutic light levels.

TL;DR: The RBDSQ-J had high sensitivity, specificity, and reliability and would be applicable as a screening method for iRBD in the elderly Japanese population.

TL;DR: The relatively high number of females in the early-onset group suggests a unique clinical profile for a condition typically characterized as male-predominant, including direct or indirect correlations with medication use and/or psychopathology and the development of RBD.