Sleep Medicine and Physical Therapy by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030850746
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

1.7 Prognosis

Narcolepsy patients have difficulty performing daily life activities and socializing, mainly due to cataplexy attacks and EDS. These patients have a poor quality of life that is similar or inferior to patients with epilepsy or obstructive sleep apnea syndrome [2].

The quality of life of these patients worsens, even more, due to the delay in obtaining a diagnosis and symptom control. The average delay for diagnosis reaches more than 10 years after the onset of symptoms even in Europe, for example. When considering that the majority of patients will present the onset of symptoms in the second decade of life, they would remain untreated during a crucial period of their education and the initial period of their career [2–13].

These patients often have slower responses to external stimuli and varying degrees of difficulty concentrating [13].

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