Restless legs syndrome and its correlation with other sleep problems in the general adult population of Japan

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-159

  Enomoto, Minori ^a,b   Li, Lan ^a   Aritake, Sayaka ^a,b   Nagase, Yukihiro ^a   Kaji, Tatsuhiko ^a   Tagaya, Hirokuni ^a   Matsuura, Masato ^b   Kaneita, Yoshitaka ^c   Ohida, Takashi ^c   Uchiyama, Makoto ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hypersomnia; Insomnia; Restless legs syndrome; Sleep habits; Sleep problems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP INDUCTION;

EID: 33845430105     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2006.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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