Sleeping patterns are likely to affect health conditions significantly. Women struggling with insomnia as well as other sleeping disorders are more susceptible to suffer fibromyalgia in later stages of life as compared to the rest of the counterpart enjoying a sound sleep, suggested a latest study carried out by experts from Norway.

Prior to this, several studies carried out to depict the consequences of sleeping disorders have blamed the condition for causing inflammation as well as other sleeping disorders to badly affect the body's natural defense mechanism for pain handling. However, experts have emphasized on the need of more research work in order to explore the association between sleeping complications and fibromyalgia.

While explain the findings, an expert from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Paul J. Mork, who led the study, notified that sleeping problems can be observed as one of the factors that creates a feasible environment for the development of fibromyalgia and insisted to carry out more research in order to highlight other reasons as well.

"Pain can affect your sleep; it results in poor sleep for many patients, and that in turn increases the pain and results in the persistence of the problem", added a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Lesley Arnold, while acknowledging a reciprocal relationship between fibromyalgia and sleep quality.

Before suggesting the findings, the experts carefully analyzed more than 12,350 healthy women, aged 20 and above, without any incidents of fibromyalgia, muscle or bone pain or any other physical impairment at the start of the study during mid 1980s. Afterwards, they assessed all the subjects again in mid 1990s and identified them with developed fibromyalgia, a painful syndrome.