New sleep disorders epidemiology research reported from Stanford University

New research, "CSF versus serum leptin in narcolepsy: is there an effect of hypocretin deficiency," is the subject of a report. In this recent report published in the journal Sleep, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To determine if hypocretin deficiency is associated with abnormally low serum leptin levels, a putative cause of increased body mass index in narcoleptics. Cross-sectional controlled study. Three hundred seventy subjects, including 111 healthy controls, 93 narcoleptic subjects with hypocretin deficiency (cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] hypocretin-1 levels <110 pg/mL), 72 narcoleptic subjects with normal hypocretin levels, and 89 subjects with other sleep...

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