Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep Quotes

“Between 60% and 80% of people with symptoms of dementia have Alzheimer’s disease, which appears most frequently in people 65 years and older.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“With this disorder, the body’s internal clock has lost its ability to keep time.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Some people fall out of sync with the standard 24-hour day and their sleep-wake cycle grows incrementally longer by about 20 minutes each day.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“In this disorder, your body clock is working ahead of standard circadian rhythms.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“With delayed sleep-wake phase disorder, your body clock always lags behind normal circadian rhythms, and you only feel like falling asleep late in the night or early in the morning.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Anyone who travels long distances by plane has probably experienced jet lag — you’re in one time zone, but your body thinks it’s in another.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“About 1 in 3 people who work nights develop shift work disorder.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“An increasing number of people work outside the standard 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. workday, with about 15% to 20% of U.S. workers on the job during the evening or overnight, on shift work.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Confusional arousals and sleep terrors are most common in children between the ages of 1 and 12 years.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Some people, especially children, can become outwardly confused and disoriented during sleep.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“The condition is frequently related to sleepwalking, but a person with this disorder has a driving desire to eat during sleep.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Sleepwalking is less common after adolescence; it’s estimated to affect 4% of adults.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Sleepwalking is most common among the very young, affecting more than 1 in 6 children.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Restless legs syndrome is sometimes called Willis-Ekbom disease, a nod to Sir Thomas Willis, a 17th-century London physician who was the first to describe it: “So great a Restlessness and Tossing of their Members ... that the diseased are no more able to sleep, than if they were in a Place of the greatest torture.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Narcolepsy is divided into two types: Type 1. A person with type 1 narcolepsy generally experiences both excessive sleepiness and cataplexy. Type 2. An individual with type 2 narcolepsy has excessive sleepiness but not cataplexy.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Up to 70% of people who’ve had a stroke have obstructive sleep apnea, and up to 24% have central sleep apnea, a related condition in which the brain’s signaling system that tells you when to breathe becomes disrupted.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Nearly 1 in 3 people with high blood pressure have obstructive sleep apnea.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Men are much more likely to have sleep apnea than are women.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“One risk deserves special attention. If you have obstructive sleep apnea, you’re at significantly increased risk of having a motor vehicle accident.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Having sleep apnea increases your risk of several serious medical conditions, including high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and stroke. Quality of life usually suffers as well.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“This condition isn’t nearly as common as obstructive sleep apnea, and by one estimate it affects less than 1% of U.S. adults.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Obstructive sleep apnea is relatively common, affecting 14% of men and 5% of women in the United States.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Temazepam (Restoril) is a benzodiazepine and is commonly used to treat insomnia symptoms, helping people fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“more than 2.5 million people in the United States take zolpidem each year.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Zolpidem is the most commonly prescribed medication for the treatment of difficult insomnia.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that approximately 8.4% of U.S. adults today use some type of sleeping medication to help them sleep.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“This class of medications, known as orexin inhibitors, includes the drugs suvorexant (Belsomra), lemborexant (Dayvigo) and daridorexant (Quviviq).”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“These drugs, which are often referred to as Z-drugs, include medications heavily marketed today: eszopiclone (Lunesta), zaleplon (Sonata) and zolpidem (Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar).”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“Benzodiazepines are still prescribed today, most often to treat anxiety and panic disorders, and less commonly to treat seizures and induce sleep.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders

“With time, however, dependence and abuse became a growing problem with these medications as well.”
― Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Mayo Clinic Guide to Better Sleep: Find relief from insomnia, sleep apnea and other sleep disorders