By Victoria Allen Science Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 01:21 GMT, 12 March 2019 | Updated: 01:21 GMT, 12 March 2019
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It can be so frustrating... you have drifted off to sleep nicely but then wake up needing to go to the toilet.
Those night-time calls of nature, however, can have a more negative effect by also harming your life satisfaction and work performance, warns a study.
People who lose sleep like this are around two per cent less happy with their lives and lose an average of seven days of work a year through being off sick or working less efficiently as a result of tiredness.
![Nocturia has also been linked to depression and cardiovascular disease. It can be treated using drugs to increase bladder capacity or regulate fluids in the body. RAND Europe, based in Cambridge and Brussels, based the study on a questionnaire of 58,300 people [File photo]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/03/12/01/10860390-0-image-a-13_1552353038746.jpg)
Nocturia has also been linked to depression and cardiovascular disease. It can be treated using drugs to increase bladder capacity or regulate fluids in the body. RAND Europe, based in Cambridge and Brussels, based the study on a questionnaire of 58,300 people [File photo]
