Sleep Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 295-301 , March 2010

Sleep and body mass index in depressed children and healthy controls

  • Julita Wojnar

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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  • Kirk J. Brower

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, 4250 Plymouth Road, SPC 5740, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2700, United States. Tel.: +1 734 232 0294; fax: +1 734 998 7992.
    • ,
  • Richard Dopp

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Marcin Wojnar

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Psychiatry, Warsaw, Poland
    • ,
  • Graham Emslie

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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  • Jeanne Rintelmann

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
    • ,
  • Robert F. Hoffmann

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
    • ,
  • Roseanne Armitage

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Received 24 November 2008 ,Revised 22 January 2009 ,Accepted 2 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.02.012

Sleep Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 295-301 , March 2010

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