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Article: Sleep disorders: a widely ignored pandemic.(SLEEP MEDICINE)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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It is now widely known and accepted that more than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep problems. Lamentably, the vast majority of these individuals remain undiagnosed and untreated.
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This high prevalence and significant impact of untreated sleep disorders on the health and safety of the general public is not a recent discovery. In 1990, the United States Congress established the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) to gather data and develop a plan. One of the first studies carried out by the Commission confirmed and reported that there was virtually no education on sleep and sleep disorders in American medical ...