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Restless legs syndrome: overdiagnosed or underdiagnosed?

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  1. C Trenkwalder is Medical Director of the Paracelsus Elena Hospital, Center of Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders in Kassel, and Professor of Neurology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.,

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The author declared associations with the following companies: Boehringer Ingelheim (consultant, speaker), GlaxoSmithKline (consultant, speaker), Novartis/Orion Pharma (consultant), and Schwarz Pharma (consultant, speaker).

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Trenkwalder, C. Restless legs syndrome: overdiagnosed or underdiagnosed?. Nat Rev Neurol 3, 474–475 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneuro0552

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