Open AccessInvestigation of insulin resistance in narcoleptic patients: dependent or independent of body mass index?
Author(s) -
Engel,
Helfrich,
Manderscheid,
Musholt,
Forst,
Pfützner,
Dahmen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s18455
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , insulin resistance , index (typography) , narcolepsy , insulin , pharmacology , modafinil , world wide web , computer science
Narcolepsy is a severe sleep-wake cycle disorder resulting in most cases from a lack of orexin, the energy balance-regulating hormone. Narcoleptic patients have been reported to suffer from an excess morbidity of Type 2 diabetes, even after correction for their often elevated body mass index.
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