Table 1.

Recovery from diseases upon improvement in sleep quality. The numbers in parentheses show the cited article in the reference list

Disorders	Effect upon sleep improvement	References
Cardiovascular dysfunctions	Lowers the increased heart rate observed upon REMSD and lowers the chances of cardiovascular risks	[36]
Metabolic disorders	Glucose level recovered back to normal level, recovery in fatigue	[37]
Impaired immunity	Increase in counts of lymphocytes, leukocytes, and natural killer cells after sleep recovery	[38, 39]
Oxidative stress	Normalized level of superoxide and stress hormones	[40]
Defective blood-brain barrier	Progressive recovery of damaged blood-brain barrier	[41, 42]
Neurodegeneration	Improvement of neuronal morphology in brain; sufficient duration of recovery normalizes visual motor task, memory task, and cognitive performances; however, short duration sleep recovery is not effective	[43, 44]
Schizophrenia	Improvement in sleep in individuals lessen the psychotic experiences, delusions, and anxiety	[45, 46]