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Article: Women face sleep frustrations: NSF poll sheds light on the many pressures keeping female patients from getting the rest they need.(National Sleep Foundation)(Survey)
- Article from:
- Sleep Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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In decades past, health issues for women were underinvestigated and undertreated as compared to men, and female health conditions were not investigated in the same way. This reflects what many people believe to be a historical tendency of society to pay more attention to men and their problems. Today, these attitudes are changing.
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