Polysomnographic and Actigraphic Evidence of Sleep Fragmentation in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome SLEEP IN MEDICAL DISORDERS

The rates are affected bynationality and culture as well as research methodology and diagnosticcriteria, which explain the large range of values.Poor sleep quality and insomnia are commonly reported in IBSpatients. This sleep impairment may be related to patients’ symptoms,although the cause-and-effect relationship is not clear. Kumar et al