Correlates of habitual snoring and witnessed apnoeas in Busselton, Western Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 412-415

  Knuiman, Matthew W ^a   James, Alan L ^b   Divitini, Mark L ^a   Bartholomew, Helen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BRONCHITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; TEA; WHEEZING;

EID: 27544491477     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.tb00219.x     Document Type: Article

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