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Association of periodic limb movements during sleep and Parkinson disease: A retrospective clinical study.

Medicine (Baltimore) · 2019-12-01

DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000018444PMID: 31861016

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Both of periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) and Parkinson disease (PD) were related with dopaminergic system dysfunction. We aimed to investigate the detailed association of PLMS severity and PD.Clinical and overnight polysomnographic data of 2230 adults older than 40 from a community hospital between November 2011 and June 2017 in Taiwan were collected retrospectively. The association of PLMS severity and PD was analyzed by Fisher exact test, univariate, and multivariate logistic regression.The mean age was 55.6 years old (standard deviation = 9.8, range = 40-91) for all subjects. There were 2205 subjects without PD and 25 subjects with PD in this study. The distribution of PLMS severity was not significantly different between subjects without PD and with PD (Fischer exact test, P = .215). Also, PLMS was not significantly associated with PD using univariate and multivariate logistic regression.The PLMS severity was not associated with PD.

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