June 17, 2014
Chronic sleep loss and sleep illness are big problems in America – demonstrated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifying insufficient sleep as a “public health epidemic.”
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The AASM and CDC both recognize that untreated sleep illness and chronic sleep loss are vital to a wide variety of public health and chronic disease concerns, including obesity, hypertension and cancer. For more information on sleep illness or the AASM, visit sleepeducation.org.