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Showing papers in "Sleep Medicine in 2011"


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TL;DR: Findings from a meta-analysis of 41 surveys of worldwide adolescent sleep patterns and problems published in the last decade suggest a worldwide delayed sleep-wake behavior pattern exists consistent with symptoms of Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder.

876 citations


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TL;DR: The results of the present study demonstrate that the PSQI-BR is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of sleep quality and equivalent to its original version when applied to individuals who speak the Brazilian Portuguese language.

619 citations


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TL;DR: The Chinese versions of ISI, AIS and SQI are reliable and valid instruments and appear to have better psychometric properties than the Athens Insomnia Scale, which is significantly correlated with sleep-wake variables, ESS and GHQ-12 scores, smoking and drinking habits, and academic performance.

271 citations


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TL;DR: Data suggest that among aged subjects with cognitive impairment and/or parkinsonism, the MSQ has adequate SN and SP for the diagnosis of RBD, and the utility of this scale in other patient populations will require further study.

235 citations


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TL;DR: African-Americans slept worse objectively and subjectively than Caucasian-Americans, and differences in sleep continuity and duration variables were moderated by several biopsychosocial factors, whereas sleep architecture differences were not influenced by any examined moderating factor.

193 citations


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TL;DR: The findings suggest that neurocognitive deficits are common in children with SDB regardless of disease severity, highlighting that such difficulties may be present in children in the community who snore but are otherwise healthy; thus the results have important implications for the treatment of pediatric SDB.

187 citations


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TL;DR: Differences in sleep patterns in population sub-groups of adolescents may be important in understanding pediatric health risk profiles and boys, overweight, and minority adolescents may particularly benefit from interventions aimed at improving sleep patterns.

182 citations


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TL;DR: Sleep duration is an independent risk factor for CVD mortality and morbidity in women but not in men, and the highest CVC mortality risk is associated with the extreme ends of sleep duration distribution.

176 citations


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TL;DR: Adverse childhood experiences were associated with self-reported sleep disturbances in adulthood, and the ACE score had a graded relationship to these sleep disturbances.

176 citations


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TL;DR: School-based interventions are promising for educating adolescents about sleep and future programs should translate increased motivation into long-term behavioral change, according to this study.

169 citations


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TL;DR: RBDSQ could be a useful tool for the screening of RBD in PD patients and a receiver-operator characteristics curve revealed that a total score of 6 points on the RBDSQ represented the best cut-off value for detecting RBD.

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TL;DR: It is indicated that RLS is a common disorder of major clinical and public health significance in the Western industrialized world, affecting between 4% and 29% of adults, and wide variation in reported prevalence likely reflects differences in demographic factors, health status, and other population characteristics; study population source and sampling frame; and inconsistencies in RLS diagnostic criteria and procedures.

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TL;DR: The DA agonists appear to have a limited period of clinical utility for many patients and Methadone, in contrast, shows neither augmentation nor major problems with continued efficacy after the first year of treatment.

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TL;DR: The midpoint of sleep is significantly associated with dietary intake of certain nutrients and foods and other dietary behaviors in young Japanese women, and this finding may contribute to consider the relationships between chronotype and dietary intakes and behaviors.

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TL;DR: Short and long sleep were significantly associated with poor self-rated health and lower quality of life in this large sample of middle aged and older Australian adults, adding weight to recent data emphasising the importance of adequate sleep in physical and mental health.

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TL;DR: The results highlight the need to further explore the role of demographic and cultural variables in determining parental perception of a sleep problem, a perception that relates to help seeking professional treatment for infant sleep problems.

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TL;DR: A U-shaped relationship between survival and actigraphically measured sleep durations is confirmed, with the optimal objective sleep duration being shorter than the self-report optimums.

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TL;DR: This work has important implications for the delivery of SRT, particularly concerning awareness of possible 'adverse events' and likely implementation/adherence challenges, and pave the way for testable hypotheses concerning possible mechanisms of action involved in sleep restriction treatment.

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TL;DR: Reduced sleep duration was associated with obesity and atherogenic dyslipidemia in young school children in Hong Kong and there was no significant association between sleep duration and lipid levels in primary school children.

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TL;DR: IV FCM provided a safe and effective treatment for RLS that lasted for at least 24 weeks for some patients, and quality of life was also significantly improved.

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TL;DR: Long-term moderate aerobic exercise elicited significant improvements in sleep, quality of life and mood in individuals with chronic primary insomnia, and did not vary between morning and late-afternoon exercise.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that behavioral, attention, and executive function difficulties are present in children with PS as well as OSAS, and these results have implications for the treatment of milder forms of SDB, particularly PS, which is commonly viewed as benign.

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TL;DR: It is important for physicians to carefully screen patients for changes in RLS Symptoms for as long as they are on dopamine agents, with particular attention paid to those patients who present with the most severe RLS symptoms prior to treatment initiation.

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TL;DR: In a multiethnic sample of US adults, those who were both current smokers and current smokeless tobacco users had twice the odds of insufficient sleep, and second-hand smoke exposure was associated with insufficient rest/sleep among non-smokers.

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TL;DR: Cataplexy presents with a large phenotypical diversity, so the current "typical" versus "atypical" distinction may be difficult to hold, and it is proposed that grading catAPlexy with different levels of diagnostic confidence may be more useful.

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TL;DR: The given study, considering AASM rules, shows the development of sleep in normal children ages 1-18, and normal values of sleep macrostructure show significant age dependencies.

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TL;DR: The results suggest that there continues to be very limited coverage of sleep in medical school education despite an incredible increase in acknowledgement of the importance of sleep and need for recognition of sleep disorders by physicians.

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TL;DR: Inconsistent sleep schedules were common and, similar to short sleep duration, were associated with behavioral difficulties and further research is needed for the development of new recommendations, education and sleep health messages.

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TL;DR: Using AASM rules, the development of cardiorespiratory parameters in healthy children, ages 1-18 is shown, and age-related norms may improve sleep pathology identification.

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TL;DR: Patients with narcolepsy show a stable impairment of HRQoL in a 5-year period with respect to Italian normative data, while Mood status and EDS negatively influence their HRZoL while disease duration has a positive influence.