ment which is indisputably the best, even in the cases where it can be shown to be not merely the best method, but actually the only one which offers the slightest chance of a favorable issue. But among the real leaders of medical thought and experience it has been settled beyond the possibility of question that there is only one -way of dealing with excessive bodily heat which is itself danger...

In a population-based study conducted in rural Ecuador, 635 stroke-free persons aged ≥40 years were interviewed with the Epworth sleepiness scale and screened to assess their cardiovascular health (CVH) status. Excessive daytime somnolence was present in 22% persons and a poor CVH status in 69%. In a generalized linear model after adjusting for age and sex, excessive daytime somnolence was not ...

BACKGROUND The relationship between sleep and headache is meaningful and complex. Children affected by migraines tend to show many sleep disorders, such as insufficient sleep duration and excessive daytime somnolence. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the rate of reported sleep habits and self-reported sleepiness in a large pediatric sample of individuals affected by migraine withou...

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) has not been investigated using objective tests in myasthenia gravis (MG). We investigated whether objective measurements of somnolence better detected abnormalities compared with sleepiness questionnaires in MG, and determine if MG patients have EDS. Eight patients with mild-to-moderate MG were recruited. Patients completed maintenance of wakefulness, overnig...

Adolescents and young adults are often excessively sleepy. This excessive sleepiness can have a profound negative effect on school performance, cognitive function, and mood and has been associated with other serious consequences such as increased incidence of automobile crashes. In this article we review available scientific knowledge about normal sleep changes in adolescents (13-22 years of ag...

CONTEXT The precise function of sleep in animals and human beings is still unknown, and any sort of physical, social or psychological variation may change the normal sleep-wake cycle. PURPOSE This research aims is to determine the sleep disorders (SD) for each of the three trimesters of the pregnancy comparing them to the pre-pregnancy state (PG). METHOD SD were investigated in three hundre...

Brazil is one of the world leaders on traffic accidents. The present article studied the excessive daytime sleepiness of public transport drivers in two Brazilian's capitals and their level of attention. It was conducted here a descriptive transversal study of a convenient sample. For the evaluation were used: anthropometric variables, a Sleep Questionnaire, Epworth Scale of Sonolency (ESS), Di...

There is limited information available concerning the treatment of daytime somnolence associated with Parkinson's disease (PD); the most frequently applied therapeutic strategies include decreasing the dose of dopamine agonists or adding potential wake-promoting agents. There is recent data from a placebo-controlled trial concluding on a non-significant trend in favor of caffeine. We aimed to e...

OBJECTIVE Children with ADHD display higher rates of sleep problems, and both sleep disorders and ADHD have been shown to affect functioning in childhood. The current study examines the frequency and relationship between sleep problems and ADHD, and their impact on quality of life (QoL) and functional impairment. METHOD Parents of 192 children with ADHD ( M = 10.23 years) completed measures r...