Sleep Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 9 , Pages 1025-1030 , October 2009

Sleep in women: Normal values for sleep stages and position and the effect of age, obesity, sleep apnea, smoking, alcohol and hypertension

  • Carin Sahlin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 70 5535231; fax: +46 90 773817.
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  • Karl A. Franklin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
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  • Hans Stenlund

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • Eva Lindberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Sciences, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Received 15 September 2008 ,Revised 18 December 2008 ,Accepted 23 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.12.008

Sleep Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 9 , Pages 1025-1030 , October 2009

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