BACKGROUND Difficulty sleeping is common among patients with fibromyalgia (FM); however, its impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is not well understood. The aim of the current study was to assess the burden of sleep difficulty symptoms on HRQoL among patients with FM. METHODS The current study included data from the 2009 National Health and Wellness Survey (N=75,000), which is a ...

The 2006 European National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) showed that a large proportion of asthmatics had uncontrolled asthma. The current analysis estimated the prevalence of asthma and asthma control (Asthma Control Test™ (ACT); QualityMetric Inc., Lincoln, RI, USA) in five European countries using the 2008 NHWS. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), using the Short Form-12 (SF-12) heal...

Insomnia disorder is characterized by chronic dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality that is associated with difficulty falling asleep, frequent nighttime awakenings with difficulty returning to sleep, and/or awakening earlier in the morning than desired. Although progress has been made in our understanding of the nature, etiology, and pathophysiology of insomnia, there is still no univ...

PURPOSE This study assessed self-reported pain in the oldest old and examined its changes over time and in relation to other measures of health and functioning. DESIGN AND METHODS A population-based sample of the oldest old (86-92 years of age) residing in Sweden who were participating in a multiwave longitudinal investigation were interviewed about their experience of pain, as well as other ...

OBJECTIVE Links between sleep problems and suicidality have been frequently described in clinical samples; however, this issue has not been well-studied in the general population. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we examined the association between self-reported sleep difficulties and suicidality in the United States. METHODS The WHO Composite International Diagnostic Inter...

OBJECTIVES This study identified perceived employability trajectories and their associations with sleeping difficulties and depressive symptoms over time. METHODS The sample was part of the Swedish Longitudinal Survey on Health from 2008 to 2014 (n=4,583). RESULTS Two stable trajectories (high and low perceived employability over time) and three trajectories with changes (increasing, decrea...

Background and Aim: This study aimed to compare the level of pain, wound healing, facial edema, and surgeon’s comfort in surgical extraction of impacted third molars using surgical scalpel versus radiofrequency (RF) incision. Materials and Methods: This split-mouth clinical trial evaluated 41 patients with bilateral impacted third molars in one jaw with the same Pederson difficulty index (betw...

calving records from april 1998 to september 2006 comprising 104,572 calving events from 16 dairy herds of iran were used to analyze the potential effect of dystocia on calf stillbirth and productive traits in iranian holsteins. statistical analyses of production traits were performed using a linear mixed model procedure. also, a logistic regression model was constructed to analyze the effect o...