Sleep disruptions among returning combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 879-888

  Capaldi, Vincent F ^a   Guerrero, Melanie L ^b   Killgore, William D S ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051626345     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00440     Document Type: Article

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