Healthcare Burden and Productivity Loss Due to Narcolepsy in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Narcolepsy impacts both patients and society, yet there is limited data on its socioeconomic consequences.

Methods

This retrospective longitudinal cohort study used pseudonymized patient-level data from Swedish registers and included narcolepsy patients from January 2015-December 2019 and age-sex matched controls. All patients received an index date corresponding to their first narcolepsy diagnosis.

Results

This study included 466 incident narcolepsy patients and 2330 matched controls. During the years studied, healthcare resource utilization was 2-5 times higher for incident narcolepsy patients compared to matched controls (p < 0.0001). Modafinil, stimulants, and antidepressants were prescribed more often to incident narcolepsy patients (p <

SUBMITTER: Giertz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11843934 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature