Poor sleep quality predicts decreased cognitive function independently of chronic mountain sickness score in young soldiers with polycythemia stationed in Tibet

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-242

  Kong, Fan Yi ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Liu, Shi Xiang ^a  

^a KUNMING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

cognitive function; polycythemia; sleep quality; Tibet

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHINA; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP QUALITY; SOLDIER; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POLYCYTHEMIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; TIBET; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053532236     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1079     Document Type: Article

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