Sleep disorders in patients with COVID-19

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Sleep disorders often accompany COVID-19 and are a part of post-COVID syndrome. Some of the sleep disorders that occur in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 can be attributed to acute forms of insomnia. This type of sleep disorders is due to special conditions associated with hospitalization, and is short-term. Other sleep disorders appear as a part of anxiety-depressive symptoms diagnosed in patients with COVID-19. These symptoms can be classified as nosogenies – psychogenic disorders that are associated with diagnosis of coronavirus infection; somatogenies – psychopathological conditions resulting from pathological effects on the central nervous system of somatic and neurological complications of COVID-19; iatrogenies – mental disorders that occur due to the intake of medication. Currently, information on the impact of sleep quality on the severity of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of treatment for post-COVID syndrome is accumulating. This review provides up-to-date information on sleep disorders in patients with COVID-19 and the principles of their therapy.

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Marina A. Samushiya

Central State Medical Academy of the President of the Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: nmiro@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3681-9977

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof.

Russian Federation, Moscow

Natalia V. Mironova

Central State Medical Academy of the President of the Russian Federation

Email: nmiro@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3096-4340

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Mikhail G. Poluektov

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: nmiro@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6215-0918

Cand. Sci. (Med.), Assoc. Prof.

Russian Federation, Moscow

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