Assessing the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System as a Driver of Sleep Quality in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis: Observation Study

For patients with MS, stress throughout the day and an activated stress response while asleep play a crucial role in determining sleep quality, whereas this is less important for healthy individuals. Besides ensuring an adequate sleep duration, patients with MS might thus work to reduce stressors, which seem to have a particularly negative effect on sleep quality. Generally, however, sleep quality decreases with MS disease progression.