Exploring sex and gender differences in sleep health: A society for women's health research report

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 553-562

  Mallampalli, Monica P ^a   Carter, Christine L ^a  

^a Society for Women's Health Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MODEL; GENDER; GENDER BIAS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUERPERIUM; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP THERAPY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; RESEARCH REPORT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84904296792     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2014.4816     Document Type: Article

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