Wise estimates there are probably 25,000 undiagnosed patients with some kind of
sleep disorder in South Bend alone.
The National Sleep Foundation publishes brochures on sleep and
sleep disorders. Write: 1522 K Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005.
Dr Hariri believes that the prevalence of
sleep disorders in the UAE is around the same as the international average, affecting between 6 and 8 per cent of the population.
The rate of last
sleep disorder in our study; nightmares was 10.8% among academicians but 63% in the anxiety stricken population.
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that
sleep disorders are associated with a decline in cognitive performance, productivity, mood, and quality of life, as well as with major social, medical, and economic impacts.
Insomnia is the most common
sleep disorder reported by dialysis patients (Merlino et al., 2006).
All drivers with shift work
sleep disorder, except for those aged 20-24, had a crash or near-crash rate that was 7.5 times greater than that of drivers without any sleeping disorders.
The challenges of diagnosing
sleep disorder are two-fold.
It was conducted over the years 2000 to 2010 on 16,718 women that had been recently diagnosed with
sleep disorders before the start of the research.
29th International Conference on
Sleep Disorders and Medicine
According to researchers, early diagnosis of
sleep disorder is important to control risk of heart disease, stroke, depression and death.
What he saw, he said, was not only troubling, but puzzling, as there was no category for the
sleep disorder in the International Classification of
Sleep Disorders 3 and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5.