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Is There an Association between Restless Legs Syndrome and Urticaria?

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disease characterized by the urge to move the legs and sleep disturbances. Similarly, chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a dermatological disease characterized by pruritus and sleep disorders. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of R...

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Autores principales: Tuna, Serpil, Alan, Sevil, Samancı, Nehir, Karakaş, Ayşe Akman
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134503
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.5.790
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description Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disease characterized by the urge to move the legs and sleep disturbances. Similarly, chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a dermatological disease characterized by pruritus and sleep disorders. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of RLS in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and to compare the quality of sleep of patients with and without RLS in the CSU group using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. A total of 130 patients with CSU and 100 healthy controls were included in this study. The frequency of RLS, frequency of sleep disturbances, and average score of RLS in patients with CSU were statistically significantly higher than control groups (respectively P = 0.008, P = 0.009, P = 0.004). Subjective sleep quality, sleep latency and habitual sleep efficiency scores in patients with RLS were statistically significantly higher than patients without RLS (respectively P = 0.016, P = 0.007, P = 0.035). We claimed that pruritus of urticaria may decrease the quality of sleep in patients with RLS and it may trigger and worsen the restless legs syndrome. Furthermore, RLS and CSU may share a common etiology.
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spelling pubmed-48356072016-05-01 Is There an Association between Restless Legs Syndrome and Urticaria? Tuna, Serpil Alan, Sevil Samancı, Nehir Karakaş, Ayşe Akman J Korean Med Sci Original Article Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disease characterized by the urge to move the legs and sleep disturbances. Similarly, chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a dermatological disease characterized by pruritus and sleep disorders. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of RLS in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and to compare the quality of sleep of patients with and without RLS in the CSU group using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. A total of 130 patients with CSU and 100 healthy controls were included in this study. The frequency of RLS, frequency of sleep disturbances, and average score of RLS in patients with CSU were statistically significantly higher than control groups (respectively P = 0.008, P = 0.009, P = 0.004). Subjective sleep quality, sleep latency and habitual sleep efficiency scores in patients with RLS were statistically significantly higher than patients without RLS (respectively P = 0.016, P = 0.007, P = 0.035). We claimed that pruritus of urticaria may decrease the quality of sleep in patients with RLS and it may trigger and worsen the restless legs syndrome. Furthermore, RLS and CSU may share a common etiology. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2016-05 2016-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4835607/ /pubmed/27134503 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.5.790 Text en © 2016 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Is There an Association between Restless Legs Syndrome and Urticaria?
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title_short Is There an Association between Restless Legs Syndrome and Urticaria?
title_sort is there an association between restless legs syndrome and urticaria?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27134503
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2016.31.5.790
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