Background: Sleep is a transient altered level of consciousness, relative suspension of sensory perceptions and inactivation of voluntary muscles during rest.It has important role in the quality of life. Some chronic diseases such as Diabetes mellitus type 1(T1D)are accompanied with sleep disturbances which may lead to poor glycemic control.Our study was conducted to investigate sleep disorders...

Background: Sleep disorder is complex comorbidity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and there is generally a reciprocal effect between them. Considering its adverse consequences on children and their families, the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of sleep disorders in children with ADHD and the relationship between the sleep problems and mental ...

S onset rapid eye movement sleep (SOREM) is an abnormal sleep phenomenon characterized by having REM sleep occurrence within 15 minutes from the onset of nighttime sleep or daytime napping. SOREMs are commonly recognized as one of the main features of narcolepsy (1). However, SOREMs have been reported to occur with other sleep, psychiatric and medical disorders, such as OSA (2), major depressio...

Sleep problems are frequently addressed as a primary or secondary concern during the visit to the pediatric neurology clinic. Sleep disorders can mimic other neurologic diseases (e.g., epilepsy and movement disorders), and this adds challenges to the diagnostic process. Sleep disorders can significantly affect the quality of life and functionality of children in general and those with comorbid ...

To determine whether sleep disorders can cause a fibromyalgia syndrome, 30 patients with sleep apnoea syndrome were studied. All presented an important reduction in deep sleep stages (-93.1 (SD 17.9)% of stage IV and -77.2 (45.7)% of stage III) and frequent episodes of wakening ('arousals'), factors which are involved in fibromyalgia. One patient (3%) met the criteria for fibromyalgia; the esti...

Health disparities in sleep medicine: Responses to the american sleep medicine foundation Humanitarian projects award program Merrill S. Wise, M.D.1; Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D.2; Safwan Badr, M.D.3; Reut Gruber, Ph.D.4; Susan Redline, M.D.5; Steven A. Shea, Ph.D.5 1Methodist Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center, Memphis, TN; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 4McGil...

Infant sleep is a major source of distress in many families. The purpose of this study was to assess infant sleep and parental sleep-related cognitions about infant sleep in clinical and control samples. The clinical sample consisted of 48 infants referred to a sleep clinic because of night-wakings problems. The control sample included 48 infants with no parental complaints about sleep difficul...

OBJECTIVE To document the sleep of overweight adolescents and to explore the degree to which weight-related sleep pathology might account for diminished psychosocial outcome. METHODS Sixty children aged 10-16.9 from a weight-management clinic were compared to 22 healthy controls using comprehensive actigraphic, polysomnographic, and parent- and self-report questionnaire assessments. RESULTS...

INTRODUCTION The Berlin questionnaire (BQ) is a common tool to screen for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in the general population, but its application in the clinical sleep setting is still challenging. The aim of this study was to determine the specificity and sensitivity of the BQ compared to the apnea-hypopnea index obtained from polysomnography recordings obtained from a sleep clinic in Ira...