Upper airway resistance syndrome ( UARS ) is a clinical variant of sleep apnea that can also cause hypersomnia.
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Morvan's syndrome is an example of a more rare autoimmune illness that can also lead to hypersomnia.
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Further complicating these updated classification schemes, overlap between narcolepsy with cataplexy and idiopathic hypersomnia has also been reported.
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Overall, the medications currently used for idiopathic hypersomnia ( all off-label ) are far from satisfactory.
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Due to the consequences of their profound EDS, both idiopathic hypersomnia and narcolepsy can often result in unemployment.
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Idiopathic hypersomnia has long been considered a rare disease, believed to be 10 times less frequent than narcolepsy.
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Strangely enough, oversleep ( hypersomnia ), and not lack of sleep, is the most dangerous sleep disorder.
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Hypersomnia can be secondary to disorders such as clinical depression, multiple sclerosis, encephalitis, epilepsy, or obesity.
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The other hypersomnias remain subdivided based on the presence of sleep-onset rapid eye movement periods ( SOREMPs ).
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It may also be effective in reducing excessive daytime sleepiness while improving vigilance in primary hypersomnias, such as idiopathic hypersomnia.
