Iron deficiency anemia

SF Clark - Nutrition in clinical practice, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The most severe consequence of iron depletion is iron deficiency anemia (IDA), and it is still
considered the most common nutrition deficiency worldwide. Although the etiology of IDA is …

Treatment of restless legs syndrome: an evidence‐based review and implications for clinical practice

C Trenkwalder, WA Hening, P Montagna… - … : official journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Only in the last three decades, the restless legs syndrome (RLS) has been examined in
randomized controlled trials. The Movement Disorder Society (MDS) commissioned a task …

Early manifestations of restless legs syndrome in childhood and adolescence

DL Picchietti, HE Stevens - Sleep medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To describe the symptomatology reported by a series of children and
adolescents who at initial consultation did not meet full diagnostic criteria for pediatric …

Periodic limb movements during sleep: population prevalence, clinical correlates, and racial differences

H Scofield, T Roth, C Drake - Sleep, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objective: There is growing interest in the study of periodic limb movements
during sleep and their potential clinical correlates. The aim of the present analysis is to …

Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder in children and adolescents

MA Picchietti, DL Picchietti - Seminars in pediatric neurology, 2008 - Elsevier
Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) has been recognized as a common and treatable
neurologic disorder in adults for some time, but the occurrence of RLS in children and …

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Tourette's syndrome, and restless legs syndrome: the iron hypothesis

S Cortese, M Lecendreux, B Dalla Bernardina… - Medical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Preliminary but increasing evidence suggests that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), Tourette's syndrome (TS), and restless legs syndrome (RLS) may be comorbid. In …

[HTML][HTML] Restless legs syndrome

M Bayard, T Avonda, J Wadzinski - American family physician, 2008 - aafp.org
Restless legs syndrome is a common neurologic movement disorder that affects
approximately 10 percent of adults. Of those affected with this condition, approximately one …

Clinical characteristics of restless legs syndrome in end‐stage renal failure and idiopathic RLS patients

M Enomoto, Y Inoue, K Namba… - Movement …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study was done to identify the clinical characteristics of uremic restless legs syndrome
(RLS). Consecutive uremic RLS patients (n= 15) and idiopathic RLS patients (iRLS; n= 20) …

Restless legs syndrome: pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment

P Satija, WG Ondo - CNS drugs, 2008 - Springer
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is clinically defined by the presence of (i) an urge to move the
legs with or without an actual paraesthesia;(ii) a worsening of symptoms with inactivity;(iii) …

Pathophysiology of restless legs syndrome: evidence for iron involvement

JR Connor - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2008 - Springer
Neuroimaging, analysis of cerebrospinal fluid, and studies on postmortem tissue are
generating data that support the concept that iron availability to the brain is a contributory …