Restless legs symptoms with sleepiness in relation to mortality: 20-Year follow-up study of a middle-aged Swedish population

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 457-463

  Mallon, Lena ^a   Broman, Jan Erik ^a   Hetta, Jerker ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Mortality; Prospective; Restless legs syndrome; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEX FACTORS; SNORING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 48549085679     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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