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Periodic limb movements during REM sleep in multiple sclerosis: a previously undescribed entity

Overview of attention for article published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, September 2015
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Title
Periodic limb movements during REM sleep in multiple sclerosis: a previously undescribed entity
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, September 2015
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s83350
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Christian Veauthier, Gunnar Gaede, Helena Radbruch, Joern-Peter Sieb, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Friedemann Paul

Abstract

There are few studies describing periodic limb movement syndrome (PLMS) in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in patients with narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, REM sleep behavior disorder, and spinal cord injury, and to a lesser extent, in insomnia patients and healthy controls, but no published cases in multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to investigate PLMS in REM sleep in MS and to analyze whether it is associated with age, sex, disability, and laboratory findings. From a study of MS patients originally published in 2011, we retrospectively analyzed periodic limb movements (PLMs) during REM sleep by classifying patients into two subgroups: PLM during REM sleep greater than or equal to ten per hour of REM sleep (n=7) vs less than ten per hour of REM sleep (n=59). A univariate analysis between PLM and disability, age, sex, laboratory findings, and polysomnographic data was performed. MS patients with more than ten PLMs per hour of REM sleep showed a significantly higher disability measured by the Kurtzke expanded disability status scale (EDSS) (P=0.023). The presence of more than ten PLMs per hour of REM sleep was associated with a greater likelihood of disability (odds ratio 22.1; 95% confidence interval 3.5-139.7; P<0.0001), whereas there were no differences in laboratory and other polysomnographic findings. PLMs during REM sleep were not described in MS earlier, and they are associated with disability measured by the EDSS.

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Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Researcher 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Other 9 27%
Unknown 9 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 36%
Neuroscience 4 12%
Psychology 3 9%
Unspecified 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 9 27%
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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 September 2015.
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#7,302,411
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Outputs from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#944
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#79,328
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Outputs of similar age from Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
#28
of 95 outputs
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