Polysomnographic and Health-related Quality of Life Correlates of Restless Legs Syndrome in the Sleep Heart Health Study
Author(s) -
John W. Winkelman,
Susan Redline,
Carol M. Baldwin,
Helaine E. Resnick,
Anne B. Newman,
Daniel J. Gottlieb
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/32.6.772
Subject(s) - restless legs syndrome , polysomnography , sleep disorder , sleep (system call) , medicine , population , quality of life (healthcare) , insomnia , physical therapy , psychiatry , pediatrics , electroencephalography , environmental health , nursing , computer science , operating system
Sleep disturbance is the primary clinical morbidity of restless legs syndrome (RLS). To date, sleep disturbance in RLS has been measured in (1) clinical samples with polysomnography (PSG) or (2) population-based samples by self-report. The objective of this study was to analyze sleep by PSG in a population-based sample with symptoms of RLS.
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