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Q: Is It True That Women Are At Higher Risk to Sleep Disorders?
asked by: Marvin123 on November 4th, 2006
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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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Marvin123
replied on November 18th, 2006
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Women who, traditionally and culturally, wear many hats generally get affected with psychological stress. Women fill the role of wife & mother, caregiver for aging parents, and employee which can cause inadequate sleep and sleep deprivation.

Over 66% of persons with nocturnal sleep-related disorder are women. Throughout the night, patients eat food while they appear asleep. Patients with this situation report not remembering their nighttime eating. It can be caused by medications or other sleep disorders.

Sleep disorders are more common in older women but affect women of all ages. Most, if not all of these matters, will not affect men.
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Marvin123
replied on January 13th, 2007
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Menopause And Night Sweats
Hello again everyone.

Night sweats means sweating during the night. Women over the age of forty often experience night sweats. Night sweats are common in menopausal women because of the decrease in estrogen hormone levels. But it is not true that night sweats should be present in all menopausal women compulsorily.

Due to the estrogen deficiency, your hormones levels fluctuate. Your blood vessels expand and contract on an irregular basis. As the blood flow increases, a feeling of heat and flush starts on the face, neck and chest. Your body temperature increases and you may sweat and as the sweat evaporates you feel chilled and weak. Depending on the intensity of hot flash, you may feel tired, lose sleep, headache. Your body may become red as flash occurs

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Marvin123
replied on June 25th, 2007
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According to new study, sleep apnea is associated with a greatly increased occurrence of pregnancy induced diabetes and blood pressure. According to the study, when a women’s weight is taken into consideration, sleep apnea is associated with a doubling of the occurrence of gestational diabetes and a four fold increase in the risk of pregnancy induced hypertension.

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