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Reducing Your Risk of Narcolepsy

At this time, there are no known ways to prevent narcolepsy . If you have narcolepsy, there are some lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your chances of having an attack of narcolepsy.

References:

Narcolepsy. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: . Updated March 6, 2013. Accessed June 3, 2013.

What is narcolepsy? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health website. Available at: . Updated November 1, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2013.

Last reviewed September 2012 by Rimas Lukas, MD; Michael Woods, MD

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