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

Statistically significant values are indicated in bold.