Dead on your feet?

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3095, 2016, págs. 28-32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Young details why people feels exhausted. According to a recent survey of over 20,000 people by researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands, about 30 per cent of visits to doctors involve complaints about being tired all the time. Some 20 per cent of people in the US report having experienced fatigue intense enough to interfere with living a normal life. This hits people in their pockets, too: workers who are unproductive because of fatigue cost US employers more than $100 billion a year. It's perhaps surprising, then, that they are only now beginning to work out what fatigue actually is. Until recently, daytime tiredness was presumed to be nothing more mysterious than simple physical exhaustion or feeling the need to sleep--the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35 per cent of people are short on sleep