Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 175-176 , June 2004

Long sleep and mortality: have we been chasing the wrong tail?

  • Shawn D Youngstedt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Exercise Science,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
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  • Daniel F Kripke

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

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PII: S1087-0792(04)00021-8

doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2004.03.001

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 175-176 , June 2004