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The Majority of the patients seen in the sleep lab at Desoto Sleep Diagnostics are those suffering from sleep apnea, whose symptoms often include loud snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness. Patients are referred to the Sleep Lab by their primary care physician. The sleep lab physician evaluates the patient's sleep history. After the initial evaluation, a sleep study is conducted using state-of-the-art equipment to monitor sleep stage, eye movement, arm and leg movement, nasal airflow, breathing and respiratory efforts of individuals while sleeping. Because sleep disorders are very treatable, sleep studies provide individuals the potential for an enhanced quality of life with less fatigue after a better night's sleep; a decreased risk of heart disease; increased daytime functioning; and improved social and family relationships.

Sleep is essential to our well-being, our mental and emotional functioning, our health, and our safety. Believe it or nor, merely one-third of our entire life is spent sleeping. Before Thomas Edison's most famous invention, the light bulb, people slept an average of nearly 10 hours a night; today Americans average around 7 hours of sleep on weeknights and 8 hours per night on weekends according to a '2002 Sleep In America Poll'.

Approximately 70 million people in the United States are affected by some sort of a sleep problem. About 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders, and an additional 20-30 million are affected by intermittent sleep-related problems. However, an overwhelming majority of sleep disorders remain undiagnosed and untreated according to a National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, 1992.