Sleep and aging: 1. Sleep disorders commonly found in older people

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 176, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1299-1304

  Wolkove, Norman ^a   Elkholy, Osama ^b   Baltzan, Marc ^b   Palayew, Mark ^b  

^a and a member of the Respiratory Medicine Program Committee of the College of Family Physicians of Canada   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CARBIDOPA; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NICOTINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PHENYTOIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROID HORMONE;

AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NARCOLEPSY; NOCTURIA; PARASOMNIA; PERIODIC LEG MOVEMENT DISORDER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; SNORING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH; INCIDENCE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SNORING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34248153672     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.060792     Document Type: Review

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