Race and Financial Strain are Independent Correlates of Sleep in Midlife Women: The SWAN Sleep Study
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Martica H. Hall, Karen A. Matthews, Howard M. Kravitz, Ellen B. Gold, Daniel J. Buysse, Joyce T. Bromberger
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Independent relationships between race and financial strain with sleep were observed despite statistical adjustment for other factors that might account for these relationships, and results do not suggest that assessed indices of SES moderate the race-sleep relationship, perhaps due to too few women of low SES in the study.
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Independent relationships between race and financial strain with sleep were observed despite statistical adjustment for other factors that might account for these relationships. Results do not suggest that assessed indices of SES moderate the race-sleep relationship, perhaps due to too few women of low SES in the study.
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