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Stroke-related restless legs syndrome: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and pathophysiology.

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Stroke-related restless legs syndrome (RLS) is one of stroke-related sleep disorders, which may be due to de novo RLS after stroke onset or an exacerbation of RLS symptoms after incident… Click to show full abstract

Stroke-related restless legs syndrome (RLS) is one of stroke-related sleep disorders, which may be due to de novo RLS after stroke onset or an exacerbation of RLS symptoms after incident stroke. To date, the diagnostic rate of stroke-related RLS is low but it has a significant effect on patients' daily life and functional outcome. This review provides an overview of the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, and impact on functional outcome of stroke-related RLS.

Keywords: epidemiology; restless legs; legs syndrome; related restless; stroke related

Journal Title: Sleep medicine
Year Published: 2022

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