A Missed Opportunity to Recognize Narcolepsy Symptoms Can Have a Significant Impact on Pediatric Patients
Personality and Behavior Anxiety, depression, introversion, feelings of inferiority, and sorrowfulness1-3
Academic
About 3.5 times higher likelihood of repeating a grade vs pediatric patients without narcolepsy4*
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Economic
5 times higher medical costs vs pediatric patients without narcolepsy5†
Visit NarcolepsyLink.com/Pediatric to learn more about pediatric narcolepsy. * Based on a health-related quality of life (HRQL) study assessed through a questionnaire completed by children and adolescents with narcolepsy (N=117) and control subjects (N=69). Academic performance was evaluated in the study.4 † Based on a retrospective, cross-sectional, case-control, claims-based analysis of health care utilization and costs, that included narcolepsy patients ≤18 years of age (N=1427) and control subjects (N=4281).5 References: 1. Nevsimalova S. Narcolepsy in childhood. Sleep Med Rev. 2009;13(2):169-180. 2. Marcus C. Daytime sleepiness in children: when a quiet child is not necessarily a good thing. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2018;25:1-2. 3. Blackwell JE, Alammar HA, Weighall AR, Kellar I, Nash HM. A systematic review of cognitive function and psychosocial well-being in school-age children with narcolepsy. Sleep Med Rev. 2017;34:82-93. 4. Inocente CO, Gustin MP, Lavault S, et al. Quality of life in children with narcolepsy. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2014;20(8):763-771. 5. Reiss Reddy S, Broder MS, Tieu R, et al. Disease burden in pediatric narcolepsy: a claims-based analysis of health care utilization and costs and medical comorbidity. Poster presented at: SLEEP 2018, the 32nd Annual Meeting of the APSS; June 2-6, 2018; Baltimore, MD.
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