World sleep day: about 1/3 people in China suffer from severe sleep problems.
source: Guangming Daya
March 21, 2017 is the seventeenth world sleep day, the theme of "healthy sleep" Stay away from slow disease.
in recent years, sleep problem has become increasingly prominent, and has become an important public health problem. The 2015 China sleep index report shows that about 1/3 of the people in China have serious sleep problems. It is worrying that with the acceleration of pace of life and the increase of social pressure, this proportion is still rising.
sleep problems significantly increase the risk of chronic disease
according to statistics, the incidence of sleep - Awakening disorders worldwide is 9%~15%, resulting in the economic loss of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. In order to attract worldwide attention to sleep quality, the international mental health organization (2001) designated March 21st as "world sleep day" in March 21st.
professor Lu Lin, who has been paying attention to the study of sleep health, told reporters that long term sleep disorders not only reduce the quality of life, affect the working life of individuals, but also cause physical and mental diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, cancer and depression, even endangering life.
professor Ye Jingying, the executive vice chairman of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association sleep medicine Specialized Committee in March 18th, said that the most common "snoring" cause of sleep quality is a health killer, which is called "sleep breathing disorder" (O SA), resulting in repeated intermittent hypoxia during sleep, leading to a variety of chronic diseases. She points out that epidemiological analysis shows that the prevalence of OSA is increasing year by year.
this damage is most serious in two groups of people. "First of all, children, sleep disorders can significantly affect the physical development and intellectual development, long-term mouth breathing can not be corrected in time will cause the development of children's maxillofacial bone, resulting in irreversible results, but because of a single cause of the disease, if timely treatment, the effect is true." Ye Jingying went on to say that the second group of people is engaged in specific services such as pilots, drivers and other occupations. Epidemiological data show that the risk of traffic accidents in OSA patients is 2~7 times that of healthy people.
experts have called that sleep disorders are one of the main sources of chronic diseases. The focus of chronic disease management is "prevention". This should not only guide public awareness of prevention, but also call for active treatment. Only in this way can we maintain our health and reduce the social and health expenditure of our country on chronic diseases.
adolescent sleep problems are particularly prominent.
among all kinds of sleeping problems, the children who are most distressed by Lu Lin are children. He pointed out that epidemiological survey shows that at present, there are different degrees of sleep problems in children and adolescents in China, and this problem is becoming more and more serious. The results of
survey in 8 cities nationwide showed that the proportion of school age children's less than 9 hours of sleep was 38%, daytime sleepiness was 64.4%, and daytime somnolence accounted for 26.9%. The prevalence of sleep problems in urban children is higher than that in rural children. Chronic insomnia is also more common in children. The prevalence of sleep related breathing disorders in children aged 5~12 is 12%.
in Lu Lin's view, children and adolescents are at a critical stage of growth and development, especially in need of adequate sleep. Related research shows that by postponing school time to extend the student's sleep time, it has positive significance for improving the sleep health of children. But the reality is that the primary and secondary school students in China are losing too much homework and sleeping time is still decreasing. "Children who often suffer from daytime sleepiness are more likely to have attention deficit, learning motivation and decline in academic performance, and their intellectual development will be lower than that of healthy children in the same period. At the same time, sleep problems can also cause many physical problems such as growth retardation, overweight and obesity, and even lead to mental illness.
high school students' sleep problems are more prominent in the children of non school age. They are under the double pressure of academic and psychological change, and there is a widespread problem of insomnia. "Insomnia is an important risk factor for mental illness." Lu Lin, according to the 1 year follow-up study of 2787 senior high school students in Longmen County, Guangdong Province, showed that insomnia could increase the risk of depression and anxiety in adolescents, and the possibility of insomnia in adolescents with depression and anxiety was also significantly increased.
the development of sleep medicine needs to speed up
the study of sleep in China started in 1950s. Professor Huang Xizhen established the first domestic sleep breathing disorder diagnosis and treatment center in Peking Union Medical College Hospital in 1980s. Up to now, more than 2000 hospitals in China have established sleep monitoring rooms. Driven by the National Center for clinical medical research on mental and psychological diseases, China has initially formed a collaborative network of clinical research on sleep disorders in many regions of the country, providing a platform and support for the development of sleep research.
but Lu Lin thinks that although sleep research has made great progress, the development of sleep medicine needs to be speeded up for public medical needs. "Talent is the key. The government and hospitals should formulate relevant policies and increase investment so as to promote the establishment and development of relevant institutions and professional personnel. " He explained that clinical sleep medicine is a relatively special subject. Clinicians diagnose sleep - Awakening disorders, not only need professional sleep doctors, sleep teachers, but also experienced sleep technicians in combination with treatment. Most of the medical workers engaged in sleep diagnosis and treatment in our country are doctors in the Department of respiration, Department of Stomatology, otolaryngology, psychiatry and other subjects. There is a certain bias on the recognition of sleep diseases.
and, because of the limited number and carrying capacity of the existing sleep medical centers, most of the OSA patients can not be treated in time and effectively, and the diagnosis and treatment technology in relatively backward areas of economic level is more limited. "Therefore, it is more important to create a new way of diagnosis and treatment." Lu Lin pointed out that telemedicine technology is the way to diagnose and treat sleep disorders with the help of Internet and real-time video transmission, but the treatment effect, compliance and cost still need to be further discussed.
besides, our sleep research system is still not perfect. Lu Lin added that although the research on sleep medicine has been carried out in recent years in China, the research results have been recognized by the colleagues in the field of International Sleep Medicine, but it has not yet formed a systematic research model, and it is still unable to grasp the hot spots in the international research and the difficulties in the field of sleep medicine. "At the same time, we must cultivate independent innovation ability and build a platform for translational medicine. Chinese scholars should also focus on developing new drugs and other therapeutic means with independent property rights.