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Prevalence of insomnia symptoms in sleep laboratory patients with and without sleep apnea.

Hagen C, Patel A, McCall WV

Department of Neurology, Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

We used the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of insomnia symptoms in 100 adult patients referred for laboratory evaluation of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Sixty-one percent met ISI criteria for a moderate to severe degree of insomnia symptoms. The distribution of insomnia symptoms did not differ by OSA severity.

Published 25 November 2009 in Psychiatry Res, 170(2): 276-7.
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