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Article: A Woman's Guide to Sleep Disorders.
- Article from:
- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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This all-inclusive book highlights the fact that although sleep disorders are on the radar screen for the medical community and the public at large due to increased awareness, one population subset--women--might still go untreated. The author, an esteemed sleep pioneer, Meir Kryger, MD, Past President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and a world renowned authority on sleep, writes that diagnosis is likely to be overlooked due to unique sleep problems related to women and their roles and demands in the family unit in today's chaotic society. It should be noted that Kryger has treated more than 2,000 female patients with sleep disorders over the past 25 years.
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