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Childhood Sleep Disorders Are Studied in Abstracts to Be Presented at 19th Annual Meeting of the APSS

Posted on: Thursday, 16 June 2005, 15:00 CDT

WESTCHESTER, Ill., June 16 /U.S. Newswire/-- The following research abstracts that examine sleep disorders in children are among the body of research scheduled to be presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) in Denver, Colorado from June 20 - 22.

Obese Children with Habitual Snoring Are at a Very High Risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Obese children with habitual snoring are at a very high risk of also having obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The study was conducted by Heidi V. Connolly and colleagues from the University of Rochester, New York. It involved 122 obese children who were referred to a sleep center due to habitual snoring. Only 18 percent of the study group had associated medical disorders predisposing them to OSA. Results of polysomnographic testing show evidence of OSA in 91.5 percent of the study participants, of which 30.9 percent had already undergone adenotonsillectomy.

Signs of Sleep Disturbance in Early Childhood May Appear Years before Restless Legs Syndrome is Diagnosed

Clinical signs of sleep disturbance in early childhood may precede the diagnosis of restless legs syndrome (RLS) by more than 11 years. Daniel Picchietti of the University of Illinois and Carle Clinic in Urbana, Illinois, and colleagues reviewed the diagnoses of 199 children and adolescents seen for the follow-up of sleep problems other than sleep-disordered breathing. Ten girls and eight boys were identified who initially presented with a clinical sleep disturbance and were later diagnosed with RLS. While the average age at which they were diagnosed with RLS was 14.7 years, the onset of a chronic sleep disturbance appeared at an average of 3.1 years of age.

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A joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, the APSS Annual Meeting will bring an international body of 5,000 leading researchers and clinicians in the field of sleep medicine to Denver's Colorado Convention Center. More than 1,000 research abstracts will be presented during the meeting, bringing to light new findings that enhance the understanding of the processes of sleep and aid the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea.

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Source: U.S. Newswire

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