晚上起牀尿尿會降低白天工作效率

People who go to the toilet in the middle of the night are less productive at work, study suggests.

Getting up overnight to use the loo has a bigger impact on a person's work rate than asthma or some chronic lung diseases, leading the researchers to conclude that the condition is underestimated.

Nocturia - where a person wakes up once or more in a night to urinate - leads to "notable work productivity loss", the study presented to the European Association of Urology congress in Milan claims.

The team of researchers examined 261 women and 385 men with the condition and questioned them about the effect of health problems on their ability to work and perform regular activities.

Nocturia reduced work productivity by 24 percent - greater than the productivity loss shown by people with asthma or lung disease, it was found.

The ability to carry out leisure activities in the day was also reduced, by 34 percent.

Philip Van Kerrebroeck, professor of urology at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, said: "Nocturia is a common problem affecting around a third of adults, but its burden is underestimated and it is often dismissed as being less serious than other chronic conditions in terms of impact on quality of life and societal costs.

"These data show that nocturia negatively affects both sleep and daytime performance and its impact on work productivity is in line with many other chronic conditions. Patients with nocturia should seek specific treatment for this debilitating condition."

The researchers also found that disturbed sleep is considered to be the most burdensome symptom of nocturia, as around a third are unable drop off again which leads to insomnia

"I can't ever fall back asleep. I start watching TV all night and I am miserable the next day", one patient said.研究表明，半夜起牀上廁所的人工作效率更低。

起夜上廁所比哮喘或一些慢性肺病對一個人的工作效率產生的影響更大。這使得研究人員得出結論說，起夜的後果被低估了。

這項提交到米蘭的歐洲泌尿協會大會的研究稱，夜尿症會導致“工作效率的顯著下降”。夜尿症指一個人晚上至少一次起夜排尿。

研究團隊對有夜尿症的261名女性和385名男性進行了檢查，並詢問這一健康問題對他們的工作能力和日常活動的執行力產生的影響。

研究發現，夜尿症會使工作效率降低24%，這比哮喘病或肺病患者因病導致的生產率損失還要多。

夜尿症患者白天進行休閒活動的能力也會因此降低34%。

荷蘭馬斯特裏赫特大學泌尿學教授菲利普•凡•柯樂布里克說：“夜尿症是困擾約三分之一成人的一個普遍問題，但夜尿症造成的負擔被低估了，通常被認爲對生活質量的影響和造成的社會成本不如其他慢性病那麼嚴重。

“這些數據顯示，夜尿症對睡眠和白天的表現都造成了負面影響，它對工作效率產生的影響和許多其他慢性病是一樣的。夜尿症患者應該尋求針對這一衰弱狀況的治療方法。”

研究人員還發現，睡眠受到干擾被視爲夜尿症最煩人的症狀，約三分之一的夜尿症患者在起夜後就難以入睡，演變成失眠。

一位患者說：“起夜後我就再也睡不着了。我開始通宵看電視，結果第二天狀態就很糟糕。”