Angelica Boeve, Tanis J Ferman, Jeremiah Aakre, Erik St Louis, Michael Silber, Mary Machulda, Julie Fields, Neill Graff-Radford, Michelle Mielke, Yonas Geda, David Jones, Jonathon Graff-Radford, David Knopman, Ronald Petersen, Brad Boeve
There has been no comparison of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). We identified patients with mild dementia who met criteria for these disorders who also had the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) completed. The sample included 17 bvFTD, 111 AD, and 31 DLB. An ESS score ≥10 was considered abnormal and consistent with EDS. Analyses with age and sex as covariates revealed higher mean ESS scores for DLB compared to the other groups (DLB 13...
February 10, 2019: American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias