Sleep and metabolic control: Waking to a problem?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Trenell, Michael I ^a   Marshall, Nathaniel S ^a,b   Rogers, Naomi L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c The Woolcock Institute for Medical Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Appetite; Diabetes; Metabolism; Obesity; Sex; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; APPETITE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; MUSCLE MASS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER;

AGING; APPETITE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 33846035301     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04541.x     Document Type: Review

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