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Article: Stop losing sleep over insomnia
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- Drug Topics
- Article date:
- July 9, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Jul 9, 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Insomnia is one of the most commonly reported medical and psychiatric conditions in the United States. For practitioners capable of dozing off during the constant advertising campaigns of agents for insomnia, several factors should serve as a wake-up call about how important treating insomnia is in the medical community. Numerous studies have emerged indicating links between insomnia and several medical disorders, including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, neurological disease, breathing problems, urinary problems, chronic pain, gastrointestinal problems, and mental disorders.
Insomnia is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition, ...