The Menstrual Cycle Effects on Sleep

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Driver, Helen S ^a,b   Werth, Esther ^c   Dijk, Derk Jan ^d   Borbély, Alexander A ^e  

^a KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

BLEEDING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST TENDERNESS; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NAUSEA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 45549097671     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2007.10.003     Document Type: Review

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