Insomniacs are More Likely to Experience Daytime Symptoms Such as Negative Mood, Fatigue

U.S. Newswire, June, 2006

WESTCHESTER, Ill., June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Persons suffering from insomnia are more likely to experience various daytime symptoms, including a lack of alertness, negative mood and sleepiness, according to a research abstract that will be presented at the 20th anniversary SLEEP meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) at Salt Lake City's Salt Palace Convention Center from June 17-22.

D.J. Buysse and colleagues of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studied 47 subjects with primary insomnia and 18 good sleepers, who underwent diagnostic and baseline symptom evaluations and completed visual analog scale symptom ratings on hand-held computers four times per day for one week.

The authors conducted a functional principal components...

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