Sleepwalking as a symptom of bulimia.

Abstract

The 19 controls had non-malignant lung disease and, like the lung-cancer group, virtually all-were smokers (one exception); they were aged 47-82 (mean 66-2) and 12 were men. No patient was receivg steroids in any form or any other medication which might be expected to affect plasma sex hormone binding globulin concentratons.The table shows the results with both methods of measuring sex hormone binding globulin. Clearly there was no evidence at all for increased concentrations of sex hormone binding globulin in patients with lung cancer; indeed, the mean values in the patients with cancer were lower, albeit not significantly so. This was not due to our control group having higher values than the controls from the authors' study: our values for men Finally, it would be of interest to know more demographic data about the patients, such as age range, atopy, and what regular treatment they were using.In summary, the authors' findings need confirmation and clarificaton in a more precise prospective study, relating not only the incidence of acute asthma attacks but also the time ofpresentation (or time ofonset ofsymptoms, orboth) to the weather conditions during the preceding few hours. If confirmed the results would lend support to our hypothesis that certain combinations of meteorological factors can alter the level of bronchial hyperreactivity in patients with asthma.' At present the most likely factors are relative changes in temperature and relative humidity.

Somnambulism: Recent Findings

“…Somnambulism-associated disorders/syndromes are presented in Table 2. These include alcoholism [34], brain tumor [37], bulimia [38,39], epilepsy [40][41][42][43] hyperthyroidism [44], migraine [45][46][47][48], nocturnal hypoglycemia [49,50], Parkinson's disease [29,51,52], sexsomnia [32], sleep-disordered breathing [53][54][55], and Tourette's syndrome [56,57]. In a cross-sectional case-control study conducted in Montpellier, France, with 100 adult sleepwalkers (55 men and 45 women, aged 18-59 years), Lopez et al [48] found 44% suffered from chronic pain, compared to 20% of controls.…”