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Article: IOM: it's time to wake up to sleep disorders.(Institute of Medicine )(care and treatment)(Statistical data)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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It's time for physicians and the public alike to wake up to the staggering impact of sleep disorders, a new report from the Institute of Medicine charges.
An estimated 50-70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders such as insomnia, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome, yet the vast majority "go unrecognized because nobody's asking patients about them," Dr. Harvey R. Colten, who chaired the committee that assembled the report, said in an interview. "Even when they do [ask], they're not following up on the problem and dealing with it either directly or by referral. That's a major issue for the practitioner as well as for the medical educator."
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