Yes, it is true that women are at higher risk to sleep disorder than men. Women are two times as likely to suffer from sleep disorders, such as falling and staying asleep, than men. Many reasons are to be examined.
The clinical definition of a sleep disorder is “an unsettling pattern of sleep that may include difficulty falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at unsuitable times, excessive total sleep time, or abnormal behaviors associated with sleep”.
There are four categories of sleep disorders:
insomnia
hypersomnia
sleeping disruptive disorders
having trouble sticking to a normal sleep pattern
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