Prevalence and influencing factors of sleep disorders in patients with CRS: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

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Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a common chronic disease that seriously affects patients’ quality of life and imposes a heavy physical and mental burden on patients. There is growing evidence that sleep disorders are strongly associated with patients with CRS. However, there is no systematic evidence to clarify the prevalence and influencing factors of sleep disorders in patients with CRS with nasal polyps (NP) (CRSwNP) and CRS without NP (CRSsNP). For this reason, this study will systematically analyse the prevalence of sleep disorders in patients with CRSwNP and CRSsNP and explore the related influencing factors. Methods and analysis We will electronically search PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane, Ovid, Scopus, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, the ...

BMJ     Dec 30, 2023