{"id":4735,"date":"2019-12-13T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:00:26","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-who-took-medication-to-help-fall-or-stay-asleep-four-or-more-times-in-the-past-week-by-sex-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/12\/13\/4735\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 Years or Older Who Took Medication To Help Fall or Stay Asleep Four or More Times in the Past Week, by Sex and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6849a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6849a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2017\u20132018, 8.2% of adults aged 18 years or older took medication to help fall or stay asleep four or more times in the past week (6.6% for men and 9.7% for women).<\/p>\n<p>Among men, the percentage who took medication for sleep four or more times in the past week increased with age from 3.8% among those aged 18\u201344 years to 10.7% among those aged 65 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>Among women, the percentage increased from 5.8% for those aged 18\u201344 years to 12.7% among those aged 45\u201364 years and 13.2% among those aged 65 years older.<\/p>\n<p>Across all age groups, the percentage was higher among women than men.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2017 and 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6849a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6849a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132018, 8.2% of adults aged 18 years or older took medication to help fall or stay asleep four or more times in the past week (6.6% for men and 9.7% for women). Among men, the percentage who took medication for sleep four or more times in the past week increased with age from 3.8%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,59510,53752,11906],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}