Mortality and the siesta, fact and fiction

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-4

  Bursztyn, Michael ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOCTURIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP MEDICINE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SLEEP;

EID: 84872344370     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2012.09.010     Document Type: Editorial

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