The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 21 October 2013 199 8 21-26 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2013 www.mja.com.au Supplement ment can lead to excessive in treatment and patient disenga major goals of management of O • to identify and offer treatmen regardless of disease severity, w life is affected; • to identify and offer treatme • Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) determined by p...

Sleep disorders may be one of the reasons for concerned sleep. Distressed sleep involves many inabilities such as to fall asleep, to go back to sleep and common waking up during the night. Sleep disorders can be classified under primary and secondary sleep disorders. By the improved recognition of sleep disorders, the variety of treatments now available. In this analysis of several patients of ...

Sleep is a crucial element for health and wellbeing across all age groups. There are usual age-related, normal changes that occur in sleep architecture and sleep patterns. However, ageing is also accompanied by various sleep complaints and sleep disorders. This paper will review the available literature on normal and abnormal sleep in the elderly, with a special focus on sleep disorders in deme...

The medical profession has been generally very slow to acknowledge the importance of sleep medicine and sleep research. Disorders of sleep are related to anxiety, many mental and neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, and obesity. Our knowledge of the neural substrates of sleep/wake states and sleep-related behavior disorders regulation in health and the diseases,...

Poor sleep is a common complaint of patients attending rheumatology clinics and has been observed to frequently accompany symptoms of depression, fatigue, pain and increased rheumatic disease activity [1–3]. In the past, sleep difficulties had been understood and/or perhaps dismissed as expected sequelae of the articular pain and discomfort in this patient population. More recently, there has b...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 21 October 2013 199 8 31-35 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2013 www.mja.com.au Supplement ential phenomena that occur ex during sleep.9 Parasomnias are examples include bruxism (teeth terrors (0.7%–2%) and somnam to 7%).10 A simplified summary prevalence rates is provided in B may run in families, increase in • Sleep disorders are very common i...

Both insomnia and anxiety are common complaints, but while insomnia is a diagnostic criterion for several mental disorders, anxiety is not a criterion for primary insomnia. Numerous studies have shown a high rate of co-morbidity between anxiety disorders and insomnia. The relationship is bi-directional since insomnia contributes to the development of anxiety disorders and anxiety results in ins...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 21 October 2013 199 8 11-15 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2013 www.mja.com.au Supplement markers (eg, circulating cortisol pressure, cardiac vagal modula consistent with epidemiological adverse cardiovascular events laboratory studies demonstrate ment (such that individuals sle with the circadian pacemaker) le • About 1.5 million Australians a...

We read with great interest the article by Han and colleagues, entitled “Relationship between neck length, sleep, and cardiovascular risk factors,” in which the investigators explored the association of neck length with sleep and cardiovascular risk factors by measuring midline neck length (MNL) and lateral neck length. They showed that a short neck, as measured by the MNL, is probably associat...