Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 157-164 , January 2008

Association between subjective well-being and sleep among the elderly in Japan

  • Eise Yokoyama

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +813 3972 8111x2272, fax:+813 3972 5878.
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  • Yasuhiko Saito

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, Nihon University, Japan
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  • Yoshitaka Kaneita

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Takashi Ohida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Satoru Harano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Tetsuo Tamaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Eiji Ibuka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Akiyo Kaneko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Hiromi Nakajima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Ohyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo, 173-8610 Japan
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  • Fumi Takeda

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Received 16 December 2006 ,Revised 21 February 2007 ,Accepted 21 February 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.02.007

Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 157-164 , January 2008

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