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While I was still in training to grow to be a neurologist, I got thrilled when I produced a diagnosis of Ekbom's syndrome, as RLS was then known. In those days, the condition seemed uncommon and exotic, one thing a physician pretty much in no way encountered. Nowadays, in my community practice of neurology, I see conditions of RLS practically every single day. So wherever had been all these individuals 25 many years ago? Unless the sickness has suddenly started propagating like mad, 1 has to conclude that previously the patients weren't talking, the doctors weren't listening--or both. Estimates from the prevalence of this condition differ widely, but in the significant study conducted in five European countries, 5.5% with the population above the age of 14 had this condition. RLS happens in both genders, but is slightly additional frequent in women. RLS occurs at any age--including in childhood--but becomes far more widespread with advancing years.
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