Medical Dictionary: Sleep conditions

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Sleep conditions: Another name for Sleep disorders.
Sleep conditions (condition): Various disorders of sleeping.

Sleep conditions: Sleep disorders are disturbances of sleep that may be caused by many factors such as retirement and changes in social patterns or medications. While changes in sleep patterns have been viewed as part of the normal aging process, new information indicates that many of these disturbances may be related to pathological processes that are associated with aging. In addition to affecting the quality of life, troubled sleep has been implicated with excess mortality. ¹

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1. excerpt from Sleep Disorders: NWHIC

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