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- - - - CHICAGO, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- With its cool, clear nights, crisp mountain air and leisurely pace of life, Moscow, Idaho, (population 22,000) would seem the perfect place to get a good night's sleep. Yet, according to research presented today at the annual scientific sessions of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies Meeting, nearly one in five primary care patients participating in a sleep study in Moscow, Idaho, suffers from a common, though frequently undiagnosed, condition called restless legs syndrome (RLS). According to the National Institutes of Health, RLS affects five to ten percent of the U.S. population, or as many as 12 million adults.(1) The finding emerged as part of a study conducted in a primary care setting in Moscow, Idaho, to substantiate the previously found high prevalence of RLS and also to evaluate a newly developed questionnaire to assist physicians in identifying patients with the mostly unknown, but easily treated, disorder. "Restless legs syndrome is a very common disorder yet most people have not heard of it. I would estimate that only about ten percent of people with RLS have actually been diagnosed," said Richard Allen, Ph.D., Chair, Medical Advisory Board, Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation. "As a result, it is woefully undertreated because primary care physicians lack the knowledge or awareness needed to identify sufferers." SOURCE Restless Legs Foundation
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