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History of Epidemiological Research in Sleep Medicine

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Epidemiological studies on slee** habits and sleep disorders date back to the beginning of the last century. The earliest studies included clinical case series or simple descriptive surveys about the occurrence of different sleep-related phenomena. Recent epidemiological research includes modern epidemiological methods. Sleep epidemiology, as we can understand it now, is defined as a discipline of how to study the occurrence of phenomena of interest in the field of sleep.

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Partinen, M. (2015). History of Epidemiological Research in Sleep Medicine. In: Chokroverty, S., Billiard, M. (eds) Sleep Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2089-1_24

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