Patterns of Sleepiness in Various Disorders of Excessive Daytime Somnolence
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Excessive daytime sleepiness.
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OBJECTIVE Sleep deprivation in adolescents has lately become a health issue that tends to increase with higher stress prevalence, extenuating routines, and new technological devices that impair adolescents' bedtime. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the excessive sleepiness frequency and the factors that might be associated to it in this population. METHODS The cross-sectional study analy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sleep
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0161-8105,1550-9109
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/5.s2.s165