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Epidemiology
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Structural brain lesions and restless legs syndrome: a cross-sectional population-based study
  1. Pamela M Rist1,2,
  2. Christophe Tzourio3,4,
  3. Alexis Elbaz5,6,
  4. Aïcha Soumaré3,
  5. Carole Dufouil3,4,
  6. Bernard Mazoyer4,7,
  7. Tobias Kurth1,2,3,4
  1. 1Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  2. 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  3. 3INSERM Research Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (U897) Team Neuroepidemiology, Bordeaux, France
  4. 4College of Health Sciences, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
  5. 5Social and Occupational Determinants of Health, INSERM, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Villejuif, France
  6. 6Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Versailles, France
  7. 7CNRS CEA (UMR5296) Neurofunctional Imaging Group, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Pamela M Rist; prist{at}mail.harvard.edu

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the association between white matter lesion (WML) volume, silent infarcts and restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a population-based study of elderly individuals.

Design Cross-sectional study.

Setting Population-based Three-City study.

Participants 1035 individuals from the Dijon, France, centre of the Three-City study who had available information on volume of WMLs from MRIs and who answered questions about the prevalence of RLS.

Primary outcome measure Prevalence of RLS.

Results WML volume was measured using an automated tissue segmentation method. Logistic regression was used to evaluate adjusted associations between tertiles of WML volume and RLS and between silent infarcts and RLS. 218 individuals (21.1%) were determined to have RLS. Compared with those in the first tertile of WML volume, individuals in the second tertile (OR=1.09; 95% CI 0.75 to 1.60) or third tertile (OR=1.17; 95% CI 0.79 to 1.74) did not have an increased prevalence of RLS. We also did not observe associations between the volume of deep or periventricular WML and RLS; nor did we observe an association between silent brain infarcts and RLS (OR=0.74; 95% CI 0.40 to 1.39). These findings were not modified by age or gender.

Conclusions Higher volume of WML and the presence of silent infarcts were not associated with an increased prevalence of RLS in this population-based cohort of elderly individuals.

  • restless legs syndrome
  • MRI

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005938

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