Short Sleep Duration Across Income, Education, and Race/Ethnic Groups: Population Prevalence and Growing Disparities During 34 Years of Follow-Up
Annals of EpidemiologyPublished 17 September 2007Open access
Katherine A. Stamatakis, George A. Kaplan, Robert E. Roberts
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Socioeconomic position is a robust determinant of short sleep duration, even after adjusting for health-related characteristics linked to shortSleep duration.
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Socioeconomic position is a robust determinant of short sleep duration, even after adjusting for health-related characteristics linked to short sleep duration.
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