Chronobiology and Sleep in Cluster Headache.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cluster headache attacks follow a striking circadian rhythm with an intriguing influence of sleep. We aim to investigate differences in sleep quality, chronotype, and the ability to alter individual sleep rhythms in episodic and chronic cluster headache patients vs controls.

Methods

Cluster headache patients and non-headache controls from the Dutch Leiden University Cluster headache neuro-Analysis program aged 18 and above completed web-based questionnaires in a cross-sectional study.

Results

A total of 478 episodic, 147 chronic cluster headache patients and 367 controls participated. Chronic cluster headache patients had more often early chronotypes than controls, as measured by mid-sleep phase (P = .021 adjusted B -15.85 minutes CI -29.30; -2.40). Compare

SUBMITTER: de Coo IF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771706 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature