title: [Sleep and normality: usefulness for the practitioner].
abstract: About fifty percent of patients consulting their primary care physician complain of sleep disorders. Clinicians have to distinguish normal from abnormal sleep. For example, sleep normality is usually characterised by an apnea/hypopnea index < 5 h(-1) in absence of sleep symptoms. However such an index varies in relation with age, gender, body mass index, measurements methods In daily clinical practice, clinicians should look for sleep symptoms to define an abnormal sleep. More studies are needed to better define which patient will really benefit from a specific sleep therapy.
authors.affiliation: Centre valaisan de pneumologie Centre hospitalier du Valais central 3963 Montana. Raphael.simon@admin.vs.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gregor
authors.forename: J-G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Frey
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tschopp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012016:Reference Values; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*