Increasingly sleep is recognized as a modifiable risk factor for disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Sleep is increasingly being recognized as important in human maladies. Charlene Gamaldo, a sleep expert at Johns Hopkins, says sleep quality is important in both management and prevention strategies.

Gamaldo: How is sleep potentially impacting the management and the progression of neurological disease? On the flip side if that is the case how can sleep, if you have good sleep health, how can that actually help to preserve neurological health? :16

Why is sleep so impactful?

Gamaldo: If you have poor sleep your immune system is not as robust so you're more likely to get sick in the short term. From a long term there is now suggestions that there is a strong correlation and association with core sleep even in middle age and cognitive impairment at later age.  :19

So sleep should be a priority for you, Gamaldo concludes. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.