Journal article
Sleep disturbances by disease type and stage in Huntington's disease
Parkinsonism & related disorders, Vol.91, pp.13-18
10/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.08.011
PMCID: PMC8842493
PMID: 34450461
Abstract
Sleep disturbances are a common symptom in patients with Huntington's disease (HD). However, it is unclear when in the disease course of HD sleep disturbances become more frequent compared to the general population. This study investigated the frequency and odds of developing sleep disturbances between adults with HD or at-risk for HD and non-HD controls.
Participants from the Enroll-HD study were split by both disease type and disease severity using CAG length, diagnostic confidence level, and total functional capacity score. Multivariate logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios adjusted for age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, depression and psychosis scores, and cognition to compare HD groups to non-HD controls. Cox proportional hazards models and Kaplan Meier curves were used to determine differences in probabilities of developing sleep disturbances and how sleep disturbances are related to age at motor onset.
There were significant differences between HD participants and non-HD controls in both the disease type and disease stage analyses (p < 0.001). The odds of a sleep disturbance increased with worsening disease stage and was highest in those with juvenile HD. The development of a sleep disorder in manifest HD participants was observed to be around the time of disease onset.
Sleep disturbances are more frequent in HD patients than those without HD. There are also differences based on disease type and stage. This is supplemented by the finding that the onset of sleep disturbances occurs near the time of motor onset of HD.
•Timing of sleep disturbances is unknown in Huntington's disease (HD).•Participants with HD had greater odds of having sleep disturbances than non-HD controls.•Sleep disturbances were more likely in those in a more severe disease stage.•Onset of sleep disturbances appeared around the same time as HD motor onset.•Detection of sleep disturbances may begin around motor onset and allow for earlier treatment prior to severe disease.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sleep disturbances by disease type and stage in Huntington's disease
- Creators
- Amy C Ogilvie - Department of Psychiatry, The Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USAPeg C Nopoulos - Department of Psychiatry, The Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USAJordan L Schultz - Department of Psychiatry, The Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Parkinsonism & related disorders, Vol.91, pp.13-18
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.08.011
- PMID
- 34450461
- PMCID
- PMC8842493
- NLM abbreviation
- Parkinsonism Relat Disord
- ISSN
- 1353-8020
- eISSN
- 1873-5126
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100005725, name: CHDI Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2021
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Epidemiology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984123080002771
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