Explaining social inequalities in health by sleep: the Japanese civil servants study
Journal of Public HealthPublished 15 November 2005
Michikazu Sekine, Tarani Chandola, Pekka Martikainen, D. McGeoghegan, Michael Marmot, Sadanobu Kagamimori
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Sleep quality may mediate the relationship between SES and physical and, in particular, mental health in men, and the differences hardly changed when the PSQI global score was adjusted for.
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Sleep quality may mediate the relationship between SES and physical and, in particular, mental health in men.
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