The authors searched databases through December 2020 for case-controlled studies that measured polysomnography (PSG) or Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in patients with migraine, either episodic or chronic, with or without aura. …
Sleep problems in pain patients entering tertiary pain care: the role of pain-related anxiety, medication use, self-reported diseases, and sleep disorders
View PostSleep Duration and Hypertension: Epidemiological Evidence and Underlying Mechanisms
While the contribution of several physiological systems to arterial blood pressure regulation has been studied extensively, the role of normal and disrupted sleep as a modifiable determinant of blood pressure …
Quality of life and procrastination in post-H1N1 narcolepsy, sporadic narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia
View PostEvaluation of pathological sleepiness by Multiple Sleep Latency Test and 24-hour polysomnography in patients suspected of idiopathic hypersomnia
Sleepiness is considered not to be unidimensional. The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd edition (ICSD‐3) employs two criteria for ‘pathological sleepiness’ for idiopathic hypersomnia: (i) sleep prolongation with a 24‐h …