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Pop Culture Lifestyle Creates Sleep Loss, Disease, Disorder in Boomer Zoomers
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51 year old Boomer, Joe Higgins thought his sleepless nights were due to his allergy medicine.
Truth is, Joe's diagnostic abilities turned out to be just as unreliable as his golf game (a Tiger Woods he is not).
Here's the proverbial happy ending. Joe got tested at the Johns Hopkins Sleep Center (JHSC) which discovered the real source of his sleep disorder, one of many sleep disorders affecting 70 million Americans, many of whom are Boomer Zoomers.
Joe's test results discovered that, during sleep, his breathing was interrupted 26 times every hour.
Factor in other age-related problems such as increasing nocturnal urination trips to the bathroom, and you can appreciate Joe's hectic, sleepless lifestyle.
When Joe's supposed to be getting restful, recuperative sleep, he's actually busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.
Learn from this ordinary Joe. He's "just like you" and 70 million other Americans.
FACTS TO SLEEP ON
- Each year, sleep disorders cost American industry $50 billion in lost productivity.
- Sleep disorders result in $16 billion in health care expenses every 365 days.
- 65% of America's shift workers suffer from sleep disorders.
- 15 million adults suffer from sleep apnea, and half don't know it.
Do not sleep-walk around this important health problem. Get tested, be rested, live healthier and longer.
Image credit: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Source: Johns Hopkins Public Health magazine, Fall 2009.
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