Sleep represents a set of biological functions necessary for the maintenance of life.
Performing these functions, though, requires that an individual engage in behaviors, which …

The prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly worldwide, which is cause for concern
because obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, reduces life …

Purpose Epidemiologic studies on sleep disorders in the USA have mostly focused on
specific disorders in specific groups of individuals. Most studies on sleep habits and sleep …

Abstract Study Objectives: To examine racial differences in sleep in a large cohort of midlife
women and to evaluate whether indices of socioeconomic status (SES) are associated with …

Objective: To examine the independent and interactive effects of race and socioeconomic
status (SES) on objective indices and self-reports of sleep. Methods: The sleep of 187 adults …

This paper reviews the literature on interindividual variability in human sleep parameters,
sleepiness, responses to sleep deprivation, and manifestations of sleep disorders …

OBJECTIVE: This meta-analysis was designed to estimate the average magnitude of ethnic
differences between African-Americans and Caucasian-Americans in normal sleep and to …

Sleep is a biological imperative associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. As such, a
thorough discussion of the sociocultural and demographic determinants of sleep is …

Study Objective: Subjective and objective assessments of sleep may be discrepant due to
sleep misperception and measurement effects, the latter of which may change the quality …

Despite decades of sleep research by means of polysomnography (PSG), systematic
interindividual differences in PSG‐assessed sleep parameters have been scarcely …