Siesta in healthy adults and coronary mortality in the general population

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-301

  Naska, Androniki ^a   Oikonomou, Eleni ^a   Trichopoulou, Antonia ^a,b   Psaltopoulou, Theodora ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC HEALTH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIESTA; SLEEP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP;

EID: 33846983579     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.3.296     Document Type: Article

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