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Sleep Study Conducted for ME/CFS Patients

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A recent study in the American Journal of Medicine, that was conducted by Dr. Elke Van Hoof, compiled information from a large sleep study base of ME/CFS patients. They were looking for a common theme and relationship to “deregulation of the RNase L antiviral pathwayan immune dysfunction common to a subset of CFS patients. RNase L is the key enzyme in the body’s antiviral pathway.”

Results showed that subjects experienced prolonged trouble initiating sleep, poor sleep efficiency and less slow-wave deep sleep. The alpha-delta wave intrusion, however, appeared to be correlated to anxiety rather than immunologic parameters such as deregulated RNase L. So while this study didn’t find a connection between sleep problems and RNase L, it did validate sleep latency and efficiency problems in CFS patients as well as alpha-delta wave intrusion.

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: ME/CFS, Sleep disorders, Sleep Study

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