Effects of an electric blanket on sleep stages and body temperature in young men

Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 749-757

  Okamoto Mizuno, Kazue ^a   Tsuzuki, Kazuyo ^a   Ohshiro, Yasushi ^b   Mizuno, Koh ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Ibaraki Industrial Technology Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Electric blanket; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; SKIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC BLANKETS; MICROCLIMATE TEMPERATURE; RAPID EYE MOVEMENT; SLEEP STAGES; THERMOREGULATION;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REM SLEEP; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP STAGE; SWEAT; THERMOREGULATION;

ADULT; BEDDING AND LINENS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICITY; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 23344442283     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500120874     Document Type: Article

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