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Trent Thornhill with parents

Snooze or you lose

The world would be a much better place if people would get more sleep.
That's what Fitzgerald Drummond, M.D., and staff at MUSC's Sleep Disorders Center believe. Drummond would like physicians to take sleep disorders more seriously, assessing patients on the quality of their sleep just as they gather information on other health markers, such as weight and blood pressure.
Recent studies indicate that nearly one in three adults in the U.S. reported getting less than seven hours of sleep per night, and about 50 to 70 million
Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders.

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