{"id":10295,"date":"2023-04-30T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:52:45","slug":"what-is-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Insomnia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Insomnia:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> It is a <strong>common sleep disorder<\/strong> <strong>that can make it hard to fall asleep<\/strong>, hard to stay asleep or cause you to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The condition <strong>can be short-term (acute)<\/strong> or <strong>can last a long time (chronic)<\/strong>. It may also come and go.<\/li>\n<li>Acute insomnia <strong>lasts from 1 night to a few weeks<\/strong>. Insomnia is <strong>chronic when it happens at least 3 nights a week for 3 months or more.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>affects women more than men<\/strong> and older people more than younger ones.<\/li>\n<li>Insomnia may play a role in the development of chronic diseases, such as: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types of Insomnia:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Primary insomnia<\/strong>: This means <strong>your sleep problems aren\u2019t linked to any other health condition <\/strong>or problem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondary insomnia<\/strong>: This means you have<strong> trouble sleeping because of a health condition<\/strong> (like asthma, depression, arthritis, cancer, or heartburn); pain; medication; or substance use (like alcohol).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stress-related to big life events<\/strong>, like a job loss or change, the death of a loved one etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Things around you<\/strong>, like noise, light, or temperature<\/li>\n<li><strong>Changes to your sleep schedule<\/strong> like jet lag, a new shift at work, or bad habits you picked up when you had other sleep problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/health\/insomnia-linked-to-risk-of-heart-attack-especially-in-women-study\/1547004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Insomnia linked to risk of heart attack, especially in women: Study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insomnia is a sleep disorder that makes it hard to fall or stay asleep or cause you to wake up too early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}