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Article: Doctors ignore sleep problems of elderly: study
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 14, 2007
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Doctors ignore sleep problems of elderly: study
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Doctors rarely note the sleep
problems of older patients, although two-thirds of them report these
complaints, according to a new study.
Researchers at the U.S. Northwestern University studied 1,503
patients aged 60 and older who visited their primary-care doctors.
They surveyed the patients about sleep problems and found that 69
percent of the patients had at least one sleep complaint, and 40
percent had two or more. Forty-five percent of the patients said they
had "difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or being able to
sleep."
The study, published in a recent issue of the American Journal of ...