Longitudinal trends in late-life insomnia: Implications for prescribing

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-184

  Morgan, Kevin ^a   Clarke, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Epidemiology; Hypnotics; Incidence; Insomnia

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030798885     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.3.179     Document Type: Article

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