Sleepy Kids: are the current diagnostic criteria for multiple sleep latency tests enough?

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is common in childhood and is currently quantified using adult criteria on a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). This study aimed to describe paediatric MSLT results, particularly focussing on a previously proposed alternative mean sleep latency (MSL) threshold for...

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Published in:Sleep medicine 2024-02, Vol.114, p.272-278
Main Authors: Anantharajah, Aveena, Davey, Margot J., Nixon, Gillian M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Disorders of Excessive Somnolence - diagnosis
Female
Humans
Hypersomnolence
Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Male
Mean sleep latency
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy - diagnosis
Polysomnography - methods
REM sleep
Retrospective Studies
Sleep Latency
Sleep, REM
Young Adult
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Summary:Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is common in childhood and is currently quantified using adult criteria on a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). This study aimed to describe paediatric MSLT results, particularly focussing on a previously proposed alternative mean sleep latency (MSL) threshold for children of 12 min, and assess the impact of a 5th nap. We performed a retrospective analysis of MSLTs at a single paediatric centre from 2004 to 2021. Narcolepsy was defined as a mean sleep latency (MSL) ≤8min with ≥2 sleep onset REM (SOREM) periods. Idiopathic Hypersomnia (IH) was defined as a MSL ≤8min with
ISSN:1389-9457
1878-5506
DOI:10.1016/j.sleep.2024.01.014