Sleep Quality Is Related to Disease Activity in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Polysomnographic Study. 2016

Erdal İn, and Teyfik Turgut, and Arif Gülkesen, and Servet Yolbaş, and Gürkan Akgöl, and Süleyman Serdar Koca
From the Departments of *Chest Diseases, †Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and ‡Rheumatology, Firat University Faculty of Medicine, Elazig, Turkey.

BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease that is associated with poor sleep quality. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between disease activity and sleep quality in patients with AS and to evaluate the potential effect of anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) treatment on sleep quality and pattern. METHODS Fifty-nine patients with AS were consecutively included in the study. Twenty-eight patients (47.5%) were receiving anti-TNF, and 31 (52.5%) patients were receiving only nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Demographic and treatment characteristics, spinal mobility measurements, disease activity measurements, and sleep questionnaire results of each patient were recorded. Each patient underwent a polysomnography examination for the evaluation of sleep patterns. RESULTS When compared with the patients on NSAID treatment, patients receiving anti-TNF treatment had significantly greater total sleep time and sleep efficiency (P = 0.003 and P < 0.001, respectively). They had a significantly lower (better) Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, sleep onset latency, number of awakenings, and arousal index (P < 0.001, for all). Moreover, they had a significantly shorter superficial sleep period (stage 1) and a significantly longer rapid eye movement sleep period (P < 0.001 and P = 0.02, respectively). Higher indexes of disease activity (Bath AS Disease Activity Index, Bath AS Functional Index, and visual analog scale) were reflecting poorer sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS Sleep quality and pattern was markedly better in patients with AS on anti-TNF compared with the patients on NSAID treatments. Increased disease activity can impair the quality of sleep in AS. Improved sleep quality and pattern in patients on anti-TNF treatment may be related to improved disease activity.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D010147 Pain Measurement Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies. Analgesia Tests,Analogue Pain Scale,Formalin Test,McGill Pain Questionnaire,Nociception Tests,Pain Assessment,Pain Intensity,Pain Severity,Tourniquet Pain Test,Visual Analogue Pain Scale,Analog Pain Scale,Assessment, Pain,McGill Pain Scale,Visual Analog Pain Scale,Analgesia Test,Analog Pain Scales,Analogue Pain Scales,Formalin Tests,Intensity, Pain,Measurement, Pain,Nociception Test,Pain Assessments,Pain Intensities,Pain Measurements,Pain Questionnaire, McGill,Pain Scale, Analog,Pain Scale, Analogue,Pain Scale, McGill,Pain Severities,Pain Test, Tourniquet,Questionnaire, McGill Pain,Scale, Analog Pain,Scale, Analogue Pain,Scale, McGill Pain,Severity, Pain,Test, Analgesia,Test, Formalin,Test, Nociception,Test, Tourniquet Pain,Tests, Nociception,Tourniquet Pain Tests
D011788 Quality of Life A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. HRQOL,Health-Related Quality Of Life,Life Quality,Health Related Quality Of Life
D011795 Surveys and Questionnaires Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions. Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D000894 Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory agents that are non-steroidal in nature. In addition to anti-inflammatory actions, they have analgesic, antipyretic, and platelet-inhibitory actions. They act by blocking the synthesis of prostaglandins by inhibiting cyclooxygenase, which converts arachidonic acid to cyclic endoperoxides, precursors of prostaglandins. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis accounts for their analgesic, antipyretic, and platelet-inhibitory actions; other mechanisms may contribute to their anti-inflammatory effects. Analgesics, Anti-Inflammatory,Aspirin-Like Agent,Aspirin-Like Agents,NSAID,Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agent,Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agent,Anti Inflammatory Agents, Nonsteroidal,Antiinflammatory Agents, Non Steroidal,Antiinflammatory Agents, Nonsteroidal,NSAIDs,Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents,Agent, Aspirin-Like,Agent, Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory,Agent, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory,Anti-Inflammatory Agent, Non-Steroidal,Anti-Inflammatory Agent, Nonsteroidal,Anti-Inflammatory Analgesics,Aspirin Like Agent,Aspirin Like Agents,Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Agent,Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Agent,Nonsteroidal Anti Inflammatory Agents,Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Agents
D012890 Sleep A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility. Sleep Habits,Sleeping Habit,Sleeping Habits,Habit, Sleep,Habit, Sleeping,Habits, Sleep,Habits, Sleeping,Sleep Habit

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