Background Evaluation and interpretation of the literature on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
allows for consolidation and determination of the key factors important for clinical …

The restless legs syndrome is a common disorder that encompasses an idiopathic form of
genetic or unknown origin and symptomatic forms associated with many causes …

Anatomical, physiological, psychological and hormonal alterations affect sleep during
pregnancy. Sleep appears tobe commonly impaired only after the first trimester. Albeit …

Restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is common during pregnancy,
affecting approximately one in five pregnant women in Western countries. Many report …

The purposes of this study were to validate the use of a single standard question for the
rapid screening of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and to analyze the eventual effects of the …

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a significant public health concern, with obstructive
sleep apnea (OSA) being a common cause, and a particular relationship exists with the …

Sleep and pregnancy are dynamic processes with unique and evolving physiological
substrates. Given the “restorative hypothesis” of sleep as an anabolic process essential for …

In 1940 Mussio-Fournier and Rawak 1 described the clinical features of a family in which a
few members were affected by “pruritus, urticaria and paresthesias” in the lower limbs; the …

The relationship between the functional somatic syndromes, anxiety disorders and the upper
airway (particularly, sleep disordered breathing) remains ambiguous. This ambiguity …

Since establishing 4 essential diagnostic criteria for restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom
disease (RLS/WED) 1 in 1995 and then slightly modified in 2003, 2 it was realized based on …