Pregnancy accounts for most of the gender difference in prevalence of familial RLS

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 310-313

  Pantaleo, Nicholas P ^a   Hening, Wayne A ^b   Allen, Richard P ^c   Earley, Christopher J ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial RLS; Gender and RLS; Pregnancy and RLS; Restless legs syndrome; RLS; RLS prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPARA; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 76949098056     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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