RESEARCH - Sleep problems common in arthritis patients

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Sleep Problems Common in Arthritis Patients

Medscape.com

By Myers Lowe

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 15 - Arthritis can substantially worsen

the quality of patients' sleep, particularly when pain isn't well

controlled or patients are depressed and anxious, a new study shows.

" Among people with arthritis, the prevalence of sleep disturbances was

very high - about 23%, or more than 10 million Americans, " said Dr.

Grant Louie, now at s Hopkins University Medical School in

Baltimore, land.

In people without arthritis, by comparison, the rate of sleep

disturbances was only about 16 percent.

Dr. Louie headed up the study when he was still at the National

Institutes of Health. He and his colleagues analyzed health data from

23,134 adults, age 18 or older, gathered in the large 2007 National

Health Interview Survey. Participants provided information about a

wide range of topics including smoking, alcohol consumption, diet,

exercise, weight, sleep, and chronic health problems.

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