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Article: Sleep Medicine: Essentials and Review.(Book review)
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- Respiratory Care
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- June 1, 2009
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Sleep Medicine: Essentials and Review.
Teofilo Lee-Chiong Jr. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. Soft cover, illustrated, 720 pages, $59.50.
Sleep medicine is a relatively new field, and sleep disorders are just beginning to be recognized by primary-care and subspecialty clinicians. Furthermore, there has been an explosion of both basic and clinical research in sleep in the past decade, particularly in associating sleep-disordered breathing with a number of highly prevalent diseases in our society, including systemic hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and abnormalities in glucose metabolism. Importantly, most sleep disorders ...