SLEEP: Single Question Aids Restless Leg Diagnosis  SLEEP:
Single Question Aids Restless Leg Diagnosis  SALT LAKE CITY,
June 22 ? A restless leg syndrome diagnosis can be ruled out by
a single question, a researcher said here, a question that has
achieved an international consensus.  If people answer no to the
question, no further work is needed, said Raffaele Ferri, M.D.,
of the Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and
Brain Aging in Troina, Italy, at Sleep 2006, the joint meeting
of the Sleep Research Society and the American Academy of Sleep
Medicine.  On the other hand, Dr. Ferri told researchers, a few
people answer yes even though they don't actually have restless
leg syndrome, and in that case physicians need to delve deeper,
using standard techniques to arrive at a diagnosis.  The
question, developed by the International RLS Study Group on the
basis of standard diagnostic criteria, is:    Loading
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