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Because it can give rise to a wide variety of medical problems including:
"Yes. Sleep Deprivation can have a lasting effect on your health. Also, not sleeping can lead to accidents that further affect health and ability to function such as car accidents."
Sleep deprivation and boys!
Sleep deprivation can cause acne
It is bad if you cannot sleep. Sleep deprivation can actually lead to death. It also leads to other problems such as weight gain (as it slows down your metabolism) and stress.
Is REM sleep deprivation associated with SIDS?
There is no known direct link between anemia and sleep deprivation.
In people prone to sleep walking, sleep disturbance, including sleep deprivation, can make sleep walking more likely.
Deprivation of food can lead to starvation. The sentence uses the term deprivation as it pertains to eating adequate amounts of food.
Sleep deprivation is increasingly considered a public health issue in our wired, connected, always-on world. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has launched a significant public awareness campaign about the health effects of too little sleep. In their report, "Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem," they note that effects of sleep loss can include increased risk of obesity, depression, heart attack, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes. They estimate that sleep deprivation costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year in direct medical costs and that 1 in 5 severe auto-related injuries are "associated with driver sleepiness."Your job performance is also likely to suffer as your reaction time, reflexes, and cognitive abilities decline with long-term sleep deprivation. In other words, not a good idea.http://www.iom.edu/en/Reports/2006/Sleep-Disorders-and-Sleep-Deprivation-An-Unmet-Public-Health-Problem.aspx
Yes. Palpitations are not uncommon in sleep deprived people, even in the short term. Sleep is one of the most important thing a human being does, even if they don't outwardly achieve anything with it. Sleep deprivation is bad!
Sleep deprivation is proven to be one of the leading causes of anxiety. However it seems to be a viscous circle as anxiety creates sleep deprivation, and when we are deprived of sleep it again causes anxiety.
There are many primary causes of sleep deprivation. Some of the primary causes of sleep deprivation includes insomnia, sleeping in an unsafe area, and having an odd sleeping schedule.