Sleep: Why It's Vital to Your Health

Jose Colon, MD, MPH

Learning Objectives

• Enhance your understanding of the connections between nutrition, weight, and sleep.
• Sleep health is not commonly included in most medical school curriculum.
• Males between the ages of 30-60 years have a 25% incidence of sleep apnea.
• Chronic insomnia affects 30-40% of the population.
• Medications are not first-line therapy for insomnia.
• Narcolepsy symptoms typically begin a decade before one receives an appropriate diagnosis.
• Sleep deprivation leads directly to weight gain.
• Sleep-related fatigue is estimated to cost businesses ~$150 billion a year.
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