The sleep of African Americans: A comparative review

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-44

  Durrence, H Heith ^a   Lichstein, Kenneth L ^b  

^a Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33748767532     PISSN: 15402002     EISSN: 15402010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15402010bsm0401_3     Document Type: Review

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