Publications by authors named "B Holzinger"
Background: Preliminary data suggests that obesity might hasten the decline in mRNA vaccine-induced immunity against SARS-CoV-2. However, whether this renders individuals with obesity more susceptible to long COVID symptoms post-vaccination remains uncertain. Given sleep's critical role in immunity, exploring the associations between obesity, probable long COVID symptoms, and sleep disturbances is essential.
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- A study aimed to explore the prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before, hypothesizing that existing symptoms worsened and new symptoms emerged due to pandemic-related stressors.
- An online survey conducted from May to August 2020 included 17,846 adults across 15 countries and found that RLS symptoms increased significantly during the pandemic (9.1%) compared to pre-pandemic levels (5.4%).
- Factors like insomnia severity, younger age, social restrictions, financial difficulties, and mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, were strongly linked to both existing and new-onset RLS symptoms during the pandemic.
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- - Accurate measurement of habitual sleep duration (HSD) is important for linking sleep to health, and this study compared two self-report methods (Method-Self and Method-MCTQ) to identify bias based on sleep quality (SQ) and social jetlag (SJL).
- - The findings from 10,268 participants indicated that Method-Self typically reported HSD as 42.41 minutes lower than Method-MCTQ, with greater bias observed in those with poorer sleep quality; the two methods exhibited very poor agreement overall.
- - The study suggests that including questions about sleep quality in surveys could help reduce estimation bias and improve the reliability of sleep-related health research, especially given the systematic errors found between the two methods examined