Increased fatigue in the morning and during the day are common results of the many sleep disorders.

Sleep apnea (the unnoticed breathing pauses while sleeping) is among these, along with a huge number of other illnesses and disorders which degrade the quality of sleep.

In 1991, a study by the HUK company has proven that about one quarter of all deadly accidents on the highways of Bavaria is caused by microsleep.

Some environmental disasters are explained as overtiredness of the staff, e.g., the poison gas misfortune of Bhopal in 1984, the reactor accident of Chernobyl in 1986 or the oil tanker damage of the Exxon Valdez 1989.

These data show the immense economical significance of sleep disorders.

According to different estimates, accidents and wrong economic decisions resulting from overtiredness caused by sleep disorders generate losses in the hundreds of billions of euros yearly to the overall worldwide economy.

Subsequent illnesses of the heart circulatory system, like cardiac infarction or stroke, cost many lives and huge sums of money through the loss of working hours and the costs of clinic stays and rehabilitation.