Factors including gender, geographic region, employment status, and choice of accompanying medication play a role in determining a narcolepsy patient’s medication usage. This is according to an abstract published in the journal Sleep and presented at the SLEEP 2017 conference.
The researchers studied 970 assessments involving 849 patients with narcolepsy. Prior to this publication, the researchers note, there were no studies that pinpointed what influences individuals with narcolepsy to use, combine, or discontinue different medications.