Sleep disorders in a military population

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-10

  Pouliot, Zoe ^a   Peters, Mel ^a   Neufeld, Herb ^a   Delaive, Ken ^a   Kryger, Meir H ^b  

^a ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRAMIPEXOLE;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OBESITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 0037226941     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/miled.168.1.7     Document Type: Article

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