Secondary causes of restless legs syndrome in older people

ST O'Keeffe - Age and ageing, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background: secondary causes of restless legs syndrome (RLS) have been reported to be
more common in those with late-onset RLS. However,'late-onset'in previous studies was …

Complex segregation analysis of restless legs syndrome provides evidence for an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance in early age at onset families

J Winkelmann, B Muller‐Myhsok… - Annals of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A strong familial component of restless legs syndrome (RLS) is known. The objective of this
study therefore was to investigate the likely mode of inheritance of RLS. RLS patients and …

Restless legs syndrome

P Odin, M Mrowka, M Shing - European Journal of Neurology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Restless legs syndrome (RLS), first described in 1672 and given its name in 1945, is one of
the most common sleep and movement disorders. Modern population‐based studies …

Prevalence of restless legs syndrome and associated factors in the Korean adult population: the Korean Health and Genome Study

J Kim, C Choi, K Shin, H Yi, M Park… - Psychiatry and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The present study was purposed to identify the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS)
and its associated factors in the Korean adult population. Among a total of 9939 participants …

Restless legs syndrome associated with major diseases: a systematic review and new concept

C Trenkwalder, R Allen, B Högl, W Paulus… - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Recent publications on both the genetics and environmental factors of restless legs
syndrome (RLS) defined as a clinical disorder suggest that overlapping genetic risk factors …

Epidemiology of restless legs in The Netherlands

R Rijsman, A Knuistingh Neven… - European journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in various regions in the world has been
estimated between 2.5 and 29%. For the Netherlands these figures are not known. Our …

Clinical characteristics of Restless legs syndrome in patients with Parkinson's disease

T Nomura, Y Inoue, K Nakashima - Journal of the neurological sciences, 2006 - Elsevier
To assess the characteristics, clinical significance and pathology of Restless legs syndrome
(RLS) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), we studied clinical backgrounds, RLS …

Multiple sclerosis and restless legs syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

M Schürks, P Bussfeld - European Journal of Neurology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Restless legs syndrome (RLS) has been reported to occur more
frequently in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. Methods …

Restless legs syndrome: clinical experience with long-term treatment

SC Clavadetscher, M Gugger, CL Bassetti - Sleep medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There are limited data on long-term treatment efficacy, and
almost none on predictors of treatment response in patients with restless legs syndrome …

Restless legs syndrome: clinicoetiologic correlates

W Ondo, J Jankovic - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
Despite recent attempts to better characterize restless legs syndrome (RLS), this neurologic
disorder remains poorly understood. The relationship between idiopathic and secondary …