睡眠医学已经发展成为医学中一门新的边缘学科,10年来在诊断、治疗方面取得了快速的发展。系统的研究和临床观察已表明,睡眠是电生理学上所定义的、有不同活性水平、一种积极的行为状态。睡眠的不同期对机体调节功能影响不同。 尽管在80年代就已有证据表明,一些疾病可引起睡眠改变,睡眠本身又是疾病产生、演变过程中的一个重要因素,但对睡眠医学价值的认识是缓慢的。引起睡眠障碍的内科疾病有:睡眠病、夜间心脏缺血、与睡眠相关的呼吸障碍、慢性阻塞性肺病、重叠综合征 Sleep medicine has developed into a new edge discipline in medicine and has achieved rapid development in diagnosis and treatment over the past 10 years. Systematic studies and clinical observations have shown that sleep is electrophysiologically defined, with varying levels of activity, a positive behavioral state. The different periods of sleep have different effects on the body’s regulating function. Although there was evidence in the 1980s that some diseases can cause changes in sleep, sleep itself is an important factor in the development and evolution of the disease. However, the understanding of the value of sleeping medicine is slow. Internal diseases that cause sleep disorders include: sleep sickness, nighttime cardiac ischemia, sleep-related breathing disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, overlap syndrome