... The study conclusion is that excessivesleepiness is related to increasing age; an association with the pres- ence of sleep hyperhidrosis was also observed. Sleep deficit was very frequent in the assessed ...
... The former is usually temporally linked with the menses; the latter, a rare condition, is generally limited to males in which the first episode of excessive sleepiness occurs in the se[r] ...
... Although sleep apnea is the most common cause of excessivesleepiness (3), it leads to significant impairments in QOL, cognitive performance, and social functioning (4). More reliable diagnostic parameters ...
... exclude excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy since in narco- leptics excessivesleepiness generally starts earlier – dur- ing adolescence – and it is also accompanied by cataplexy ...
... excessivesleepiness, with eight questions, encompassing daily monotonous life situations: sitting down and reading; watching TV; sitting down in public places (classroom and church); riding in a train, bus ...
... or excessivesleepiness, since the working hours coin- cide with the habitual sleep phase, causing shortened total sleep time and unsatisfactory quality of ...or excessivesleepiness are ...
... Epworth Sleepiness Scale–ESS (Johns, 1991) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index–PSQI (Bussey, Reynolds, Monk, Berman, & Kupfer, 1989), which were given to teachers and were collected at a later date to avoid ...
... However, excessivesleepiness or hypersomnia refer to an abnormal increase in the likelihood of falling asleep, dozing off or having sleep attacks when sleep is not ...of excessivesleepiness ...
... From the data analyzed in this study, we conclude that the epidemiologic profile of patients seen at the sleep medicine clinic in a university hospital are mostly obese menwith moderate or severe OSAS. Snoring and daytime ...
... and excessivesleepiness were almost two times more prone to fall when compared with other females who did not present that clinical ...between excessive daytime sleepiness and falling or ...
... or excessivesleepiness, since the working hours coin- cide with the habitual sleep phase, causing shortened total sleep time and unsatisfactory quality of ...or excessivesleepiness are ...
... Narcolepsy is a chronic brain disorder charac- terized by excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks. It affects up to one in a thousand people. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phenomena such as ...
... for excessivesleepiness when the test was conducted dur- ing the day and night, respectively, when the drivers normally would be working/driving ...of sleepiness in terms of reduction of attention, ...
... daytime sleepiness even if patients with PD often misperceive their sleepiness which overlaps with the fatigue symptom ...clinical excessivesleepiness in PD ...daytime sleepiness in ...
... Narcolepsy is a chronic brain disorder charac- terized by excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks. It affects up to one in a thousand people. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phenomena such as ...
... Can we say that a disease is contagious if patients who die from it, in the act of dying, cause the deaths of others? In Wisconsin (USA), a group of 602 civil servants, ranging from 30 to 60 years of age, were evaluated. ...
... Two years after initial examination, a phone in- terview assessed cardiovascular new events and the degree of daytime somnolence by the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). The ESS is a validated ques- tionnaire ...
... Subjects. A total of 201 teachers from public schools of Quipapá/PE were evaluated, comprising 38 profession- als working 1 shift, 40 working 2 shifts and 123 work- ing 3 shifts. he subjects were submitted to evaluations ...
... Introduction: Sleepiness is a cardinal symptom in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) but most patients have unspecific symptoms. Arterial stiffness, evaluated by pulse wave velocity (PWV), is related to ...
... distractions that compete with sleep. However, the problem may worsen when beyond the use of electronics, adoles- cents make use of psychoactive substances, such as caffeine drinks to stay awake longer, which have an ...