Screen LibrarySleep, stroke and cardiovascular disease
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge medicine |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 159 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781107016415 (hardback) 110701641X (hardback) |
| Index Number: | R541 |
| CLC: |
R541 R332 |
| Call Number: | R332/S632 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. "That sleep is a function of the brain is by now a cliche and yet many clinicians have classified sleep disorders in the pulmonary section, an incomprehensible phenomenon of modern clinical sciences. Sleep originates in the brain and its alterations disturb brain function. Somewhere in this circuit lies sleep apnea, the most insidious and pervasive of all sleep disturbances, which explains only partially why sleep is viewed as a pulmonary subspecialty"--Provided by publisher. |