Insomnia in elderly persons
Sleep disturbance (insomnia) is one of the most frequent state accompanying functional and organic disturbances in the human body. There are the following types of disturbances of this cycle: insomnia (a disturbance related to difficulties of the beginning or maintenance of sleep), hypersomnia (incr...
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| Language: | Russian |
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Remedium Group LLC
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Медицинский совет |
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| Online Access: | https://www.med-sovet.pro/jour/article/view/1578 |
| Summary: | Sleep disturbance (insomnia) is one of the most frequent state accompanying functional and organic disturbances in the human body. There are the following types of disturbances of this cycle: insomnia (a disturbance related to difficulties of the beginning or maintenance of sleep), hypersomnia (increased requirement in sleep, in this case duration of sleep during a day might exceed 12 hours) and disturbance of the sleep rhythm (change of the sleep time distribution during a day, which manifests itself in displacement of the falling asleep time – more early or more late or even sleep-awake state cycle inversion, i.e. falling asleep at day time and staying awake at night). By various calculations 90% of people of various age and sex have sleep disturbance during life time [1]. |
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| ISSN: | 2079-701X 2658-5790 |