Daytime napping and health consequences: Much epidemiologic work to do

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 809-810

  Stang, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DAYTIME NAPPING; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; EDITORIAL; EXHAUSTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASM;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SLEEP;

EID: 84930575832     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2015.02.522     Document Type: Editorial

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