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ArticleSleep2016

Lack of Association between Genetic Risk Loci for Restless Legs Syndrome and Multimorbidity.

András Szentkirályi, Henry Völzke, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Julianne Winkelmann, Klaus Berger

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Article in Sleep, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Comorbidity of Migraine and Restless Legs Syndrome.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

András SzentkirályiInstitute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Henry VölzkeInstitute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Wolfgang HoffmannInstitute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Julianne WinkelmannInstitute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
Klaus BergerInstitute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
University of Münster · DEGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEStanford University · USUniversitätsmedizin Greifswald · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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objectivesMultimorbidity is a risk factor for incident restless legs syndrome (RLS). In this relationship, the potential role of known genetic risk loci for RLS has not been studied. Our aim was to evaluate whether carriers of specific RLS risk alleles have higher comorbidity burden than noncarriers.

methodsThe Dortmund Health Study (DHS) and the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) are two independent cohort studies in Germany based on age-stratified, random samples drawn from the respective population registers. DHS included 1,312 subjects and SHIP included 4,308 subjects. RLS status was assessed according to the RLS standard minimal criteria. A comorbidity index was calculated by summing the scores of the following conditions: diabetes, hypertension, myocardial infarction, obesity, stroke, cancer, renal disease, anemia, depression, thyroid disease, and migraine. Thirteen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) previously associated with elevated risk of RLS were genotyped. Analyses were carried out on the pooled sample of the two studies.

resultsThe mean age was 50.4 ± 15.9 y, and the proportion of women was 51.4%. The mean number of comorbid conditions was 1.5 ± 1.3. In multivariable regression, the mean number of comorbidities was not significantly different between carriers of any of the RLS risk alleles and noncarriers either in the total pooled sample or in those having RLS symptoms.

conclusionsBased on these results it is unlikely that known genetic risk factors for RLS would lead to increased multimorbidity.

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ComorbidityGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseAllelesAnemiaCohort StudiesDepressionDiabetes MellitusFemaleGenetic LociGermanyHeterozygoteHumansHypertensionKidney DiseasesMaleMiddle Agedmultimorbidityrestless legs syndromerisk alleles

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