Our Sleep Medicine Program is a Disease Management Program focused on prevention and effective means to actually manage the chronic condition that most sleep disorders are.
Given the strong links between sleep disorders and most of the common diseases that lead to death or disability, it has been shown that effectively treating sleep disorders has a dramatic impact on quality of life and can significantly reduce the overall cost of health care.
Sleep dramatically enhances the activity and effectiveness of immune cells, and without sleep, there is a loss of adaptive immune responses which are necessary to fight off infection.
Not only may reduced sleepincrease your risk for infectious diseases, but it may also result in inappropriate inflammatory responses associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and increased mortality.
