PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | epilepsy |
| Phenotype | C0037317|sleep disturbances |
| Sentences | 8 |
| PubMedID- 21439869 | Self-reported sleep disturbances in people with epilepsy are about twice as prevalent as in healthy controls. |
| PubMedID- 25693818 | sleep disturbances among patients with epilepsy in nigeria. |
| PubMedID- 23997949 | The multiple sleep latency test (mslt) and maintenance wakefulness test (mwt) are the most widely used objective measures of degree of daytime somnolence [12–14] that allow quantification and refinement of subjective reports of sleep disturbances in patients with epilepsy [13]. |
| PubMedID- 23103311 | Awareness of the comorbidity of sleep disturbances in epilepsy has been increasing. |
| PubMedID- 23394796 | There is a high prevalence of sleep disturbances in epilepsy, which are associated with a decreased quality of life of individuals with epilepsy. |
| PubMedID- 26220388 | Results: we showed poorer sleep quality, a higher frequency of subjective sleep disturbances in epilepsy patients. |
| PubMedID- 26273194 | Pregabalin has also been shown to improve sleep disturbances in patients with epilepsy and subjects with a variety of chronic pain conditions including fibromyalgia.20,21 in a recent observational benzodiazepine-withdrawal study with pregabalin,22 patients who still exhibited significant anxiety symptoms at the end of the study showed a significant improvement in their self-reported sleep quality as assessed with the medical outcomes study-sleep scale [mos-s]).23 as was also recently reported by bollu et al24 this would suggest that the effect of pregabalin on these patients’ sleep quality was partly independent of its anxiety-symptom amelioration effect. |
| PubMedID- 23892578 | Subjective sleep disturbances in children with partial epilepsy and their effects on quality of life. |
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