Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 159-174 , June 2004

Long sleep and mortality: rationale for sleep restriction

  • Shawn D. Youngstedt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0667, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • Department of Exercise Science, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 1300 Wheat Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-803-777-9929; fax: +1-803-777-8422
    • ,
  • Daniel F. Kripke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0667, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    • Tel.: +1-858-534-7131; fax: +1-858-534-7405.

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doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2003.10.002

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 159-174 , June 2004

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