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Article: Sleep Disorders Sourcebook.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- December 15, 1998
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- New resource for 40 Million Americans Who Are Chronically Ill
With Sleep Disorders -
DETROIT, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Forty million Americans are chronically ill with various sleep disorders, and an additional 20 to 30 million people experience intermittent sleep-related problems.
"Researchers do not yet agree on why we sleep," notes Sleep Disorders Sourcebook editor Jenifer Swanson, "but they do know that sleep disorders and disturbances cause major physical and mental problems across all ages of the lifespan."
Annual sleep-related accidents in transportation alone claim over 5,000 lives, cause hundreds of thousands of injuries, and ...