By: Michele R. Berman, MD March 08, 2011
National Sleep Awareness Week®, which takes place March 7-13, 2011, is an annual public education and awareness campaign to promote the importance of sleep sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation. The week begins with the announcement of the Foundation’s Sleep in America Poll results and ends with the clock change to Daylight Saving Time, where Americans lose one hour of sleep.This week we will run a series of articles on our parent site, Celebrity Diagnosis, revealing the results of the Sleep Foundation’s poll results, along with information about sleep and sleep disorders from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
The Scope of the Problem
•Some 70 million people in the United States have a sleep problem. About 40 million adults suffer from a chronic sleep disorder; an additional 20 – 30 million have intermittent sleep-related problems.
•Effects of sleep loss on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion in lost productivity.
•America’s adults average 6.9 hours of sleep each night, slightly less than the range of seven to nine hours recommended by many sleep experts.
•Three-quarters of America’s adults, (75%), said they frequently experience at least one symptom of a sleep problem in the past year.
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