Pregnancy as a risk factor for restless legs syndrome

M Manconi, V Govoni, A De Vito, NT Economou… - Sleep medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
Pregnant women have at least two or three times higher risk of experiencing restless legs
syndrome (RLS) than the general population. These data come from few epidemiological …

Restless legs syndrome and pregnancy

M Manconi, V Govoni, A De Vito, NT Economou… - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To perform a large and detailed epidemiologic study on restless legs syndrome (RLS)
during pregnancy and the puerperium. Methods: A structured clinical interview, …

Gender differences in health-related quality of life in multiple sclerosis

…, M Wamme Nortvedt, NT Economou… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Women have about twice the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with men,
a ratio that seems to be increasing. Most studies show that female patients seem to have a …

Predictors of residual sleepiness in adequately treated obstructive sleep apnoea patients

…, E Perraki, NT Economou… - European …, 2009 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Some patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS; respiratory distress index (RDI)
of >5 events·h −1 ) experience residual excessive daytime subjective sleepiness (…

Non-rapid eye movement sleep instability in mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study

…, E Di Coscio, FS Giorgi, L Volpi, NT Economou… - Sleep medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Polysomnographic (PSG) studies in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are not
conclusive and are limited only to conventional sleep parameters. The aim of our study was to …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep during “lockdown” in the COVID-19 pandemic

…, MS Andrade, PJ Puccinelli, NT Economou… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to determine if the lockdown measures applied due to the pandemic
of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) affected the sleep of the general population and …

[HTML][HTML] Sleepiness, fatigue, anxiety and depression in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea–overlap–syndrome, before and after …

NT Economou, I Ilias, L Velentza, Y Papachatzakis… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and / or Obstructive Sleep
Apnea (OSA) often complain about sleepiness, fatigue, anxiety and depression. However, …

Sleep in frontotemporal dementia is equally or possibly more disrupted, and at an earlier stage, when compared to sleep in Alzheimer's disease

A Bonakis, NT Economou… - Journal of …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
Background: Conversely to other neurodegenerative diseases (ie, Alzheimer’s disease, AD),
sleep in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has not been studied adequately. Although some …

Multiple sclerosis in the province of Ferrara: evidence for an increasing trend

E Granieri, NT Economou, R De Gennaro, MR Tola… - Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Background Epidemiological studies on the distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) conducted
in the Mediterranean area in the last two decades have disclosed a significant increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea in psychiatric disease

B Knechtle, NT Economou, PT Nikolaidis… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Patients with serious psychiatric diseases (major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder
(BD), and schizophrenia and psychotic disorder) often complain about sleepiness during …