Research Article
Sleep Disturbance and Related Factors in the Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Table 1
Demographic and MS-related clinical data: a comparison between the study subgroups.
| | Study group () | Subgroup with sleep disturbances () | Subgroup without sleep disturbances () | value | | | |
| Age | | | | 0.503 | Sex (F/M) | 130/48 | 83/26 | 47/22 | 0.876 | Duration of disease | | | | 0.294 | Duration of treatment | | | | 0.561 | EDSS | | | | 0.048 | Pain | 76 (42.7%) | 52 (47.7%) | 24 (34.8%) | 0.0894 | Nycturia | 10 (5.6%) | 8 (7.3%) | 2 (2.9%) | 0.3578 | Involuntary limb movements | 63 (35.4%) | 46 (42.2%) | 17 (24.6%) | 0.0170 | Respiratory disturbances | 11 (6.2%) | 11 (10.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.0162 | Fatigue | 115 (64.6%) | 78 (71.6%) | 37 (53.6%) | 0.0148 |
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Statistically significant values are indicated in bold.
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