50 to 70 Million Americans are affected by chronic sleep disorders and intermittent sleep problems that can significantly diminish health, alertness, and safety. Untreated sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, heart disease, stroke, depression, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Sleep problems can take many forms and can involve too little sleep, too much sleep, or inadequate quality of sleep.
-National Institutes of Health
50 to 70 Million Americans are affected by chronic sleep disorders and intermittent sleep problems that can significantly diminish health, alertness, and safety. Untreated sleep disorders have been linked to hypertension, heart disease, stroke, depression, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Sleep problems can take many forms and can involve too little sleep, too much sleep, or inadequate quality of sleep.
Undergoing a sleep study is key to accurate assessment and diagnosis of sleep disorders such as: Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Restless Legs Syndrome, Narcolepsy, Shifts Workers Disorder.
Our sleep laboratories are set up to diagnose sleep disorders. During your sleep study, we monitor your brain wave activity, breathing patterns, leg and muscle activity, ECG heart monitor and blood oxygen level.
Sleep Studies are usually performed at night, when most people sleep. Atlantic Sleep Center can also accommodate shift workers and people with circadian rhythm sleep disorders, and perform sleep studies at other times of day.
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- Infants require about 16 hours a day
- Teenagers need about 9 hours on average.
- Most adults need 7 to 8 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 5 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day.
- Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual.
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