Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Depression in the elderly]

7 Sep 2009 Often under diagnosed and inappropriately treated, depression in the elderly is a major public health problem. Semiology is often atypical with especially frequent physical and hypochondriac complaints. Concomitant somatic affections, social and ... Read more...

Prevalence, natural course, and risk factors of insomnia comorbid with cancer over a 2-month period.

6 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess the prevalence, natural course, and risk factors of insomnia comorbid with cancer over a 2-month period. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All patients scheduled to receive a curative surgery for a first diagnosis of ... Read more...

Emerging drugs for insomnia: new frontiers for old and novel targets.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Insomnia is the most prevalent sleep disorder, with up to 50% of the US adult population reporting symptoms of insomnia on a weekly basis and approximately 12% with insomnia disorder. Comorbid conditions such as depression and anxiety ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Depression in the elderly] 7 Sep 2009
• Prevalence, natural course, and risk factors of insomnia comorbid with cancer over a 2-month period. 6 Sep 2009
• Emerging drugs for insomnia: new frontiers for old and novel targets. 30 Aug 2009
• Is poor sleep in veterans a function of post-traumatic stress disorder? 30 Aug 2009
• Insomnia, depression, and physical disorders in late life: a 2-year longitudinal community study in Koreans. 30 Aug 2009
• Insomnia-related comorbidities and economic costs among a commercially insured population in the United States. 30 Jul 2009
• Subjective sleep, depression and anxiety: inter-relationships in a non-clinical sample. 30 Jul 2009
• Insomnia, depression, and distress among outpatients with prostate cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Health benefit costs and absenteeism due to insomnia from the employer's perspective: a retrospective, case-control, database study. 30 Jul 2009
• Longitudinal evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing and sleep symptoms with change in quality of life: the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS). 30 Jul 2009
• Incidence and risk factors of insomnia in a population-based sample. 30 Jul 2009
• Insomnia and hypertension: connecting the zzzots. 30 Jul 2009
• A caution on interpreting odds ratios. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxiety and sleep problems: emerging concepts and theoretical treatment implications. 30 Jul 2009
• Female executives are particularly prone to the sleep-disturbing effect of isolated high-strain jobs: a cross-sectional study in German-speaking executives. 30 May 2009
• Mental symptoms among Finnish farm entrepreneurs. 30 May 2009
• Sleep disorders and their association with laboratory pain sensitivity in temporomandibular joint disorder. 30 May 2009
• Polysomnographic and health-related quality of life correlates of restless legs syndrome in the Sleep Heart Health Study. 30 May 2009
• Long working hours and sleep disturbances: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. 30 May 2009
• All work and no play makes Jack lose sleep. Commentary on Virtanen et al. Long working hours and sleep disturbances: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Sleep 2009;32:737-745. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders'

Definition: Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.

Descriptor UI: D007319

Alternative terms: Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep; DIMS (Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep); Early Awakening; Awakening, Early; Nonorganic Insomnia; Insomnia, Nonorganic; Primary Insomnia; Insomnia, Primary; Transient Insomnia; Insomnia, Transient; Rebound Insomnia; Insomnia, Rebound; Secondary Insomnia; Insomnia, Secondary; Sleep Initiation Dysfunction; Dysfunction, Sleep Initiation; Dysfunctions, Sleep Initiation; Sleep Initiation Dysfunctions; Sleeplessness; Insomnia Disorder; Insomnia Disorders; Insomnia; Insomnias; Chronic Insomnia; Insomnia, Chronic; Psychophysiological Insomnia; Insomnia, Psychophysiological;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.886.425.800.800; F03.870.400.800.800;

History Note: 2000(1966)

Technical Notes: do not confuse with SLEEP DEPRIVATION, being deprived of sleep or prevented from sleeping; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE