The evolutionary reasons for sleep remain controversial. The immune theory of sleep suggests that sleep is essential to the immune system, allowing organisms to allocate more energy to their immunity. This hypothesis was tested by exploring the links between excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and ...
Adjusting for nighttime sleep duration, efficiency and hypoxemia did not affect the results. “Excessive day napping among the elderly might be a novel early marker of futuredementia risk,” Leng and colleagues concluded. –by Alaina Tedesco Reference: Leng Y, et al. Excessive napping and ...
Population-based studies of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) among adults residing in communities in developing countries are scarce. The objectives of t... C Hara,FL Rocha,MFF Lima-Costa - 《Sleep Medicine》 被引量: 103发表: 2004年 Chapter 3 – Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders during Childhoo...
Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, Tel +86 13995516750, Email nianxiong@hust.edu.cn Abstract: Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is one of the most common sleep disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD)....
This finding may be attributable to the inevitable treatment of EDS among study participants from all of the original studies, as this factor would have diminished the Acknowledgments We thank the authors of the included studies.References (63)...
In addition, the occurrence of somnolence in the patients with PD was compared with the occurrence among control groups of patients with diabetes mellitus and of healthy elderly subjects. The correlations between EDS and SB and various motor‐ and non‐motor symptoms of PD were evaluated. Among...
Elderly glaucoma patients are often treated with acetazolamide, a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor with clearance dependent on renal function. A high incidence of metabolic acidosis and other adverse effects have been noted among these patients but the reasons for this have not been explained. We hypothesiz...
Determining the prevalence of inadequate response to therapy is complex because there is variation in how sleepiness and adequate therapy is defined and how and whether competing causes of sleepiness are excluded. Among studies that use ESS score greater than 10 to define Evaluation of outcomes and ...
Current therapy for narcolepsy is symptom-based, with the goal to allow the fullest return of normal function. Among the WPAs utilized for narcolepsy, modafinil, armodafinil, 76 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) submit your manuscript | www.dovepress.com DovePress Nature and Science of Sleep ...
the commonly held belief that the frequency of URTIs is high in elite athletes after a single bout and/or during periods of intense training [3,4]. On the other hand, URTIs, usually described as the common cold, are the most frequent occurring illness among humans worldwide. More than ...