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Article: Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders, edited by Nathaniel F. Watson and Bradley V. Vaughn
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2006. Hardcover, 416 pp., $199.95.
Sleep medicine is a new and rapidly growing field. Sleep disorders are being diagnosed more frequently as clinicians are becoming more aware of them. Hypertension, cardiac diseases, and cerebrovascular diseases have been linked to sleep disorders and sleep deprivation. In addition, the impact of sleep disorders on daytime performance has enormous socioeconomic consequences. The patient with sleep disorders or daytime hypersomnolence can easily go unnoticed by the clinician, unless these symptoms are ...