“Adequate treatment of diseases of sleep helps to diagnose and improve symptoms of other diseases”.

-only one of each affected 20 goes to a specialist to deal with his problem

Vitoria-Gasteiz, November 2011- sleep well at night has become a precious asset. From almost two decades ago the medical community is focusing on diseases of the dream as an important identifier of other pathologies. According to Dr. Carlos Egea, head of the unity of the dream of the clinic USP La Esperanza, trying to sleep problems can improve each day diseases. In fact, the dream is one of the most sensitive indicators to identify problems ”.

The difficulties to fall asleep is not one minor issue. doctor Egea points out that about 30% of the population has chronic difficulties to start sleep, as well as to keep it and almost half of the people has presented one episode of transient insomnia throughout his life ”.

While the figures speak for themselves, the proportion of affected people who comes to the specialist is still very small. As you collect the Spanish dream patients Association (Asenarco), only one of each affected 20 goes to a specialist to deal with your problem. On the contrary, some of the pathologies of sleep are regarded as a public health problem: almost 20% of the population suffers from excessive sleep during the day affect driving, to family, work and social life. This symptom, origin of many causes such as narcolepsy, sleep apnea is associated with an increased cardiovascular risk. For this reason, it is necessary to go to a sleep unit in order to study these changes and assess the impact on health, to later give a treatment in accordance with the diagnostic ”, kept Carlos Egea.

The USP La Esperanza sleep unit deals with alterations of sleep of patients or derived from the same symptoms. In the case of those patients with excessive sleepiness during the day, this problem is caused mainly by the sleep apnea, which is effective treatment and that affects nearly 5% of the population ”, confirms Egea.

Time change

This past weekend timetable change has occurred and in principle may seem not important, because that is only an hour, may be a modification of nearly 6 weeks in the cycle actividad-sueño, affecting above all people with sleep problems, children and the elderly ”, confirms Dr. Carlos Egea, head of the USP La Esperanza sleep unit.

Alterations of sleep with the time change due to the modification of our internal biological clock (circadian rhythm), thus producing a change in our sleep cycle. Our biological clocks synchronization occurs around the fifth day after the change of time, not in terms of activity, but in relation to the time of dream. shall be persons with sleep pathology which will further suffer this change.

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