What is Sleep disorders?
What is Sleep disorders?
- Sleep disorders: Any disorder that affects ones sleep.
Sleep disorders: Introduction
Types of Sleep disorders:
Types of Sleep disorders:
- Insomnia
- Sleep apnea
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Problem Sleepiness
- Narcolepsy
- Fatal Familial Insomnia
- Pickwickian syndrome
- Probable human carcinogenic occupational exposure -- Shiftwork involving circadian disruption
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 7
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 6
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 5
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 4
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 3
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 2
- Restless Legs Syndrome, Susceptibility To, 1
- Primary insomnia
- Jet lag
- Sleep deprivation
- Snoring
- Central sleep apnea
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorder
- Shift work sleep disorder
- Delayed sleep-phase syndrome
- Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome
- Irregular sleep-wake pattern
- Advanced circadian rhythm disorder
- Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
- Sleep Disorders, Extrinsic
- Circadian amplitude disorder
- Sleep Apnea Syndromes
- Narcolepsy 5
- Narcolepsy 4
- Narcolepsy 3
- Narcolepsy 2
- Narcolepsy 1
- Difficulty falling asleep
- Breathing-related sleep disorder
- Drug-related insomnia
- Psychophysiological insomnia
- Psycho-reactive insomnia
- Endogenous insomnia
- Secondary insomnia
- Acute insomnia
- Primary restless leg syndrome
- Secondary restless leg syndrome
- Mixed apnea
- Apnea of prematurity
- Infantile sleep apnea
- Neurological chronic fatigue syndrome
- Post-ADD chronic fatigue syndrome
- Post-viral CFS
- Infectious CFS
- Musculoskeletal chronic fatigue syndrome
- CFS subtype 7 (pain, infectious, musculoskeletal, sleep, neurological, gastrointestinal, neurocognitive, anxiety/depression)
- CFS subtype 6 (postexertional)
- CFS subtype 5 (musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal)
- CFS subtype 4 (cognitive, musculoskeletal, sleep, anxiety/depression)
- CFS subtype 3 (mild)
- CFS subtype 2 ( musculoskeletal, pain, anxiety/depression)
- CFS subtype 1 (cognitive, musculoskeletal, sleep, anxiety/depression)
- Sleep disturbance related fibromyalgia
- Night terror
- Parasomnia
- Night sweats
- Circadian rhythm disorder
- Dysomnia
- Recurrent hypersomnia
- Posttraumatic hypersomnia
- Sleep talking
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Sleepwalking
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Periodic limb movements in sleep
- Sleep dept
- Dyssomnia
- False awakening
- Lucid Dream
- Hypnic jerk
- Hypnagogic hallucinations
- Restless leg syndrome
- Apneustic breathing
- Rapid eye movement behaviour disorder
- Hypersomnia
- Apnea
- Glaucoma -- sleep apnea
- Nightmares
- Advanced sleep phase syndrome
- Idiopathic hypersomnia -- polysymptomatic
- Idiopathic hypersomnia -- monosymptomatic
- Idiopathic hypersomnia
- Angelman syndrome
- Positional plagiocephaly
- Sleep sex
- Infantile apnea
- Cerebellar Ataxia, Deafness and Narcolepsy
- Pseudoadrenoleukodystrophy
- Narcolepsy without cataplexy
- Narcolepsy with cataplexy
- Disseminated Sclerosis with Narcolepsy
- Ondine's curse
- Apnea of infancy (AOI)
- Hypernycthemeral syndrome
- Insomnia with sleep apnea
- Cataplexy
- Kleine-Levin Syndrome
- Ondine syndrome
- Hatzfeldt syndrome
- Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Zanoli-Vecchi syndrome
- Hypersomnolence, idiopathic
- Continuous spike-wave during slow sleep syndrome
- Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
- Gelineau's syndrome
- Congenital myasthenic syndrome with episodic apnea
- more types...»
Broader types of Sleep disorders:
How many people get Sleep disorders?
Prevalance of Sleep disorders: approximately 40 million Americans (NHLBI)
Prevalance Rate of Sleep disorders: approx 1 in 6 or 14.71% or 40 million people in USA [about data]
Undiagnosed prevalence of Sleep disorders: about 40 million (almost all cases are undiagnosed according to some reports)
Undiagnosed prevalence rate of Sleep disorders:
approx 1 in 6 or 14.71% or 40 million people in USA [about data]
What causes Sleep disorders?
Causes of Sleep disorders: see causes of Sleep disorders
Risk factors for Sleep disorders:
see
risk factors for Sleep disorders
What are the symptoms of Sleep disorders?
Symptoms of Sleep disorders:
see symptoms of Sleep disorders
Sleep disorders: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Sleep disorders.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Sleep disorders.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Sleep disorders: Neurologist, Sleep Specialist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Sleep disorders.
Treatments for Sleep disorders:
see treatments for Sleep disorders
Research for Sleep disorders:
see research for Sleep disorders
Society issues for Sleep disorders
Hospitalization statistics for Sleep disorders:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Sleep disorders:
- 0.0002% (30) of hospital consultant episodes were for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 98% of hospital consultant episodes for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 74% of hospital consultant episodes for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 26% of hospital consultant episodes for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 6% of hospital consultant episodes for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 1.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for disorders of the sleep-wake schedule in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Sleep disorders:
Organs and body systems related to Sleep disorders include:
Name and Aliases of Sleep disorders
Main name of condition: Sleep disorders
Other names or spellings for Sleep disorders:
Sleep conditions, Sleeping disorder, Sleeping conditions, Sleep problems, Sleeping problems
Sleep disorders: Related Conditions
Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Sleep disorders:
