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When you spend money you do not have you experience financial debt. The average adult needs 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night. When hours needed for sleep are spent awake you accumulate a sleep debt. As sleep debt increases you will:
- Feel more tired
- Become more impaired
- Fall asleep faster
- Decrease your work performance
- Increase the number of mistakes you make
- Increase the risk to yourself and others by falling asleep while driving, operating dangerous equipment or at other inopportune times
Increase or worsen medical conditions such as hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, diabetes At the Sleep Disorders 2006 symposium, Dr. Dement attributed more than 50,000 unnecessary deaths per year and more than $100 billion per year to accidents related to sleep loss and sleep disorders.[1] Working or driving while sleepy impairs performance at least as much as being legally intoxicated with alcohol.
1. World Class CME. Sleep disorders 2006: all you ever wanted to know about sleep. February 27-March 1, 2006; Las Vegas, Nevada. Available at: http://worldclasscme.com/lasvegas/index.php Accessed August 28 2006.