Work productivity in obstructive sleep apnea patients

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 622-625

  Nena, Evangelia ^a,b   Steiropoulos, Paschalis ^a   Constantinidis, Theodoros C ^b   Perantoni, Eleni ^a   Tsara, Venetia ^a  

^a Sleep Unit   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; GREECE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOMNOLENCE; WORK; WORK CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; WORK; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954027597     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181e12b05     Document Type: Article

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