The TQ incorporates scales evaluating emotional and cognitive distress, intrusiveness, auditory perceptual difficulties, sleep disturbances, and associated somatic complaints.
In addition, subject number 11 reported episodes of tachycardia, increased perspiration, swallowing difficulties, sleep disorder and urinary incontinence.
Comorbidities directly linked with obesity include respiratory difficulties, sleep apnea, infertility, skin disorders, and psychologic dysfunction arising from poor self-esteem (Khaodhiar et al. 1999; Pender & Pories 2005).
Factor analysis of the German version of the TQ revealed the factors emotional and cognitive distress, intrusiveness, auditory perceptual difficulties, sleep disturbances, and associated somatic complaints.
Similarly to other developmental brain disorders it is commonly associated with other medical and psychiatric comorbidities including behavioral difficulties, sleep disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, and epilepsy.
In both patients genetic testing allowed to diagnose the Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS), usually a sporadic disorder characterized by dysmorphic features, hypotonia, developmental delay, speech difficulties, sleep disturbance, and behavioural problems (hyperactivity, aggression, and autoagression) [ 17].
As people age, many experience difficulties sleeping.
According to him his wife had difficulties sleeping at night.
(GP 10, p.20) Sometimes GPs had difficulties sleeping at night.
They had difficulties sleeping, and some children who had lost parents cried continuously.
There were statistically significant associations between frequent hypnotic use and difficulties sleeping although the correlations were perhaps lower than expected: 0.20 for difficulty initiating sleep, −0.12 for quality of sleep and −0.01 with number of hours of sleep.
