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Insomnie und ein reduzierter Schlaf gehören zu den häufigsten Beschwerden, die im Verlauf einer Schwangerschaft auftreten können, vor allem im dritten Trimester. Rund 66–94 % aller Schwangeren geben Schlafprobleme an, die mit negativen physischen und psychischen Konsequenzen für das schwangere Individuum wie auch für das ungeborene Kind verbunden sind.
Chronic tinnitus causes a decrease in well-being and can negatively affect sleep quality. It has further been indicated that there are clinically relevant gender differences, which may also have an impact on sleep quality. By conducting a retrospective and explorative data analysis for differences in patients with tinnitus and patients diagnosed with tinnitus and insomnia, hypothesized differences were explored in the summed test scores and on item-level of the validated psychometric instruments. A cross-sectional study was conducted collecting data from a sample of tinnitus patients (n = 76). Insomnia was diagnosed in 49 patients. Gender differences were found on aggregated test scores of the MADRS and BDI with men scoring higher than women, indicating higher depressive symptoms in men. Women stated to suffer more from headaches (p < 0.003), neck pain (p < 0.006) and nervousness as well as restlessness (p < 0.02). Women also reported an increase in tinnitus loudness in response to stress compared to men (p < 0.03). Male individuals with tinnitus and insomnia have higher depression scores and more clinically relevant depressive symptoms than women, who suffer more from psychosomatic symptoms. The results indicate a need for a targeted therapy of depressive symptoms in male patients and targeted treatment of psychosomatic symptoms, stress-related worsening of insomnia and tinnitus in women.
Die Insomnie ist eine der häufigsten Gesundheitsstörungen im höheren Lebensalter. Sie erzeugt Leidensdruck und verursacht zahlreiche gesundheitliche Probleme. Daher ist ihre Behandlung oft indiziert. Die Verhaltenstherapie ist auch bei älteren Menschen die Behandlung der Wahl. Zudem hat die Lichttherapie ihren Stellenwert. Pharmakologische Maßnahmen sind weniger gut untersucht, sind unklar in ihrem Nutzen bei einer Langzeitanwendung und sollten nur kurzfristig zur Reduktion von Leidensdruck sowie eingebunden in ein therapeutisches Gesamtkonzept zur Anwendung kommen.
Der Begriff „Coronasomnia“ beschreibt populärwissenschaftlich Schlafstörungen, die im Zusammenhang mit der COVID-19-Pandemie in Erscheinung treten. Diese können auch im Anschluss der Pandemie einen Teil der Bevölkerung betreffen. Erste wissenschaftliche Hinweise deuten darauf hin, dass durch die Pandemie entstandene Insomniebeschwerden sich nach dem Ende der Pandemie chronifizieren und somit die schlafmedizinische Gemeinschaft weiterhin beschäftigen werden.
Sleep quality and duration play a pivotal role in maintaining physical and mental health. In turn, sleep shortage, deprivation and disorders are per evidence the risk factors and facilitators of a broad spectrum of disorders, amongst others including depression, stroke, chronic inflammation, cancers, immune defence insufficiency and individual predisposition to infection diseases with poor outcomes, for example, related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping in mind that COVID-19-related global infection distribution is neither the first nor the last pandemic severely affecting societies around the globe to the costs of human lives accompanied with enormous economic burden, lessons by predictive, preventive and personalised (3P) medical approach are essential to learn and to follow being better prepared to defend against global pandemics. To this end, under extreme conditions such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, the reciprocal interrelationship between the sleep quality and individual outcomes becomes evident, namely, at the levels of disease predisposition, severe versus mild disease progression, development of disease complications, poor outcomes and related mortality for both - population and healthcare givers. The latter is the prominent example clearly demonstrating the causality of severe outcomes, when the long-lasting work overload and shift work rhythm evidently lead to the sleep shortage and/or deprivation that in turn causes immune response insufficiency and strong predisposition to the acute infection with complications. This article highlights and provides an in-depth analysis of the concerted risk factors related to the sleep disturbances under the COVID-19 pandemic followed by the evidence-based recommendations in the framework of predictive, preventive and personalised medical approach.