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Primary Sleep Disorders 141 DEFINITION From: Current Clinical Neurology: Clinical Handbook of Insomnia Edited by: H. P. Attarian © Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ 141 12 Insomnia in Primary Sleep Disorders Stephen Duntley Insomnia is defined in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders as “difficulty in initiating and/or maintaining sleep” (1). In primary insomnia, the term insomnia constitutes a diagnostic entity. In other disorders it is considered a symptom and not a primary diagnosis. Insomnia is frequently a component of the symptom complexes of other primary sleep disorders, and is listed among the diagnostic criteria for the following dyssomnias: obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome, central sleep apnea syndrome, central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome, periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), and restless legs syndrome (RLS). Disrupted sleep is among the diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy. The complaint of insomnia can also accompany parasomnias, and is listed among the diagnostic criteria for sleep starts and nightmares (1). As in other forms of insomnia, in order to be considered a clinically significant problem, the complaint of sleep disturbance must be associated with adverse daytime consequences such as fatigue, decreased concentration, or irritability. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES In what is likely the first report of RLS in the medical literature, Thomas Willis, an English physician, described a patient in the late 1600s for whom sleep was impossible because of restlessness in the arms and legs, which were compared to a person being tortured on the rack. There were subsequently sporadic reports of patients with similar symptoms, but the syndrome was not described in detail until the 1940s. A thorough description of the phenomenon of PLMs during sleep awaited development and clinical application of polysomnography, with typical features being described by Lugaresi and colleagues in 1966 (2). Insomnia associated with OSA was first described by Guilleminault and colleagues in 1973 (3). Since these initial reports, the common association between insomnia and these other sleep
142 Duntley disorders has been confirmed, although the clinical significance of this relationship continues to be defined. EPIDEMIOLOGY The epidemiology of insomnia in sleep disorders is dependent on the epidemiology of the primary sleep disorder itself. One community-based population study found about 2% of women and 4% of men have OSA syndrome (4). A recent university-based study of patients with sleep-disordered breathing found that of 231 patients sampled, 116 complained of clinically significant insomnia (5). Among postmenopausal women complaining of insomnia, 83% were noted to have upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) or OSA syndrome (6). Insomnia complaints in patients with OSA syndrome, like insomnia complaints in general, may be more frequent among women than men (7). Central sleep apnea syndrome is less common than OSA, but patients appear to be less likely to report daytime hypersomnolence and more likely to complain of insomnia (8). RLS is common, with a recent population-based study revealing bedtime symptoms in 10–15% of individuals (9). Difficulty falling asleep was reported by 84.7% of patients and 86% reported frequent awakenings with difficulty falling back asleep because of symptoms (10). PLMD increases with age, being uncommon before 30 years of age, seen in 5% of individuals between 30 and 50 years of age, and in about 44% of individuals aged 65 and older (11). One multicenter study found PLMD to be the primary diagnosis in 17% of patients complaining of insomnia (12). Narcolepsy has a prevalence of about 0.05% (13). Fragmented sleep is found in up to 90% of patients with narcolepsy (14) and tends to be relatively mild initially, increasing in severity over time (15). Nightmares with a frequency of once a week or greater are seen in 4% of the adult population in Austria (16). One study in France found that 18.3% of insomnia patients were diagnosed as having nightmares (17). Occasional sleep starts are a nearly universal phenomenon. Sleep starts may rarely become repetitive at sleep onset resulting in sleep-onset insomnia. ETIOLOGY The cause of insomnia varies according to the primary sleep disorder, and may result from the sleep-onset and maintenance difficulties inherent in the disorder itself or from secondary symptoms of the disorder. For instance, in OSA syndrome, the termination of the apnea is associated with an arousal or awakening that may be perceived and remembered by the patient. OSA syndrome is also associated with other symptoms, such as nocturia and dry mouth, which can contribute to the development of an insomnia complaint. In RLS, the dysesthesias and need to move the legs prevents sleep onset, and may prevent returning to sleep after awakenings in the middle of the night. In PLMD, limb movements are associated with arousals or awakenings that may lead to the perception of difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. In narcolepsy, the neurochemical defect leads to dysregulation of sleep
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Page 121 and 122: 104 Attarian DIAGNOSTIC WORKUP The
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