Study: Sleep disorders normal for post-combat troops

By RangerKen on June 20, 2011

FROM STARS & STRIPES

TOKYO - Sleeping disorders reported by troops returning from the war zone may be a normal result of time in combat rather than a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury, according to a study to be published this summer in the peer-reviewed journal Military Medicine.

"Sleep Disruption Among Returning Combat Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan," presented during last month's American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, examines the sleep patterns of 69 servicemembers who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan between 2006 and 2008.

"What we found was that sleep problems are ubiquitous to combat," Army Capt. Vincent Capaldi, the study's lead author and a resident physician in psychiatry and internal medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, told Stars and Stripes last month. "There is a higher incidence of people complaining about sleep problems after they return from combat, but there doesn't appear to be a connection between PTSD and TBI and obstructive sleep apnea in combat veterans."

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