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Abstract

Sleep stewardship is a systematic effort to ensure relaxedand restorative sleep, by optimizing pre-sleep, intra-sleepand post-sleep environment and ambience, in a rationalmanner. It includes not only sleep hygiene andprevention of sleeping pill abuse, but also macro- andmeso-level interventions to improve sleep quality. Theperson living with sleep disorder, their family, members ofsociety, health care professionals, and policy makers: allhave a role to play in sleep stewardship. Sleepstewardship is necessary to improve and maintain humanhealthKeywords: Lemborexant, obstructive sleep apnea,sedatives, sleep, sleep hygiene, tranquilizers, zolpidem.