Different nocturnal body temperatures and sleep with forced-air warming in men and in women taking hormonal contraceptives

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-181

  Baker, Fiona C ^a   Selsick, Hugh ^a   Driver, Helen S ^a,b   Taylor, Sheila R ^a   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contraceptives; Gender; Nocturnal heating; Sleep; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE;

ADULT; AIR; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; SLEEP, REM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031680740     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1998.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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