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- Title
Prevalencia de insomnio subjetivo y comorbilidades en pacientes de 30 a 64 años de edad.
- Authors
Delgado-Quiñones, E. G.; Hernández-Vega, R. M.
- Abstract
Introduction. Insomnia is a frequent complaint in primary medical attention. It is very important due to is effects on quality of life, and it is also considered a risk factor for type to diabetes mellitus (DM2), arterial systemic hypertension (ASH) and obesity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 40% of the population has insomnia at some point of their life and 40 to 60% have some comorbidity. There are only a few prevalence studies of insomnia in Mexico. The main objective of this one is to know the prevalence of subjective insomnia and comorbidities in patients among 30 and 64 years old who attend the FMU 171. Material and methods. Transversal, descriptive study. We included both men and women, from 30 to 64 years of age, who attended FMU 171. Both the sociodemographic formulary and the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) were used. The sample included 156 patients with a confidence interval of 99%. Analysis was done using descriptive statistics with SPSS version 21. Results. 156 patients were evaluates, 62.2% women (n=97), men 37.8% (n=59=. The prevalence of subjective insomnia was of 50% (n=78), subjective insomnia and comorbidities was of 33.33% (n=52). The frequency of patients with insomnia and obesity was 23.08 (n=36), insomnia and DM2 14.74% (n=23), insomnia and hypertension 17.95% (n=28). The difficulty to start sleeping was present in 55-8% (n=87), difficulty to maintain sleep was present in 57.7% (n=90), 62.2% had day sleepiness. Discussion. We observed a high prevalence of insomnia and comorbidities in patients under study. The most frequent one is obesity. Maintenance sleep is the most commonly affected. We found a statistically significant proportion difference for the presence of DM2 and ASH.
- Publication
Revista Médica MD, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 4, p274
- ISSN
2007-8188
- Publication type
Article