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Sleep Disorder Facts

Nearly seventy percent of women report that they suffer from some type of sleep disorder. Similarly, over forty percent of women admit that daytime sleepiness disrupts their daily activities. Although menopausal and pregnant women are far more likely to suffer from a sleep disorder, women are two times more likely than men to experience a malady of this kind.

Many elderly people suffer from insomnia and often have to be put on medication for the condition. Some of the common sleep disorders that affect children include night terrors, nightmares and bedwetting.

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Sleep Disorder Facts

Here is an important sleep disorder fact:

You can be prevented from experiencing “restorative sleep.”

Sleep deprivation can cause you to be more exhausted, irritable, emotional and impulsive. You have a hard time concentrating and your frustration level is low.

One of the most dangerous sleep disorder facts is that it can cause your immune system to weaken, making you more susceptible to a number of diseases ranging from the common cold to the more serious cancer and diabetes. In fact, people who have sleep disorders like narcolepsy, sleep apnea and insomnia are likely to suffer from asthma, diabetes or a second sleep disorder.

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Sleep Disorder Facts

Sleep disorders number in the hundreds, and they fall under any of the broad classifications of sleep disorders.

• dyssomnias (e.g., insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, hypersomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorders);
  
• parasomnias (REM sleep behavior disorder, sleep walking, sleep terror, bruxism, sleep talking, bedwetting, exploding head syndrome, sleep sex), sleeping sickness, snoring, and sudden infant death syndrome.
  

Sleep disorders can also be caused by medical or psychiatric conditions such as psychoses, depression, mood disorders, panic, anxiety and alcoholism.

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Sleep Disorder Facts

Sleep Disorder Facts #1
Sleep disorders include a range of problems -- from insomnia to narcolepsy -- and affect millions of Americans.

Sleep Disorder Facts #2
Sleep problems, including snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, sleep deprivation, and restless legs syndrome, are common among millions of Americans.

Sleep Disorder Facts #3
Sleep disorders include lack of sleep such as insomnia, disturbed sleep such as sleep apnea, and excessive sleep such as narcolepsy.

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In most cases, sleep disorders can be easily managed once they are properly diagnosed.

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Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder.

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