Efficacy of Ramelteon in Patients with Insomnia and Nocturia

LUTS: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 69-74

  Shimizu, Nobutaka ^a   Sugimoto, Koichi ^b   Nozawa, Masahiro ^a   Kobayashi, Yasuyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Yutaka ^a   Minami, Takafumi ^a   Hayashi, Taiji ^a   Yoshimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Ishii, Tokumi ^a   Uemura, Hirotsugu ^a   Nose, Kazuhiro ^b   Nishioka, Tsukasa ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lower urinary tract symptoms; Nocturia; Ramelteon

Indexed keywords

RAMELTEON;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY VOLUME CHART; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; NOCTURIA; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; STAGGERING; URINE VOLUME;

EID: 84876438117     PISSN: 17575664     EISSN: 17575672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-5672.2012.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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