Sleep Disorders Handbook: A Handbook for Clinicians

by Peretz Lavie, Giora Pillar, Atul Malhotra

Recent years have seen the rapid development of sleep medicine as a new medical subspecialty. It is estimated that at least 30% of the adult population suffer at least once from some sort of sleep disturbance. Patients with sleep disorders are frequently among the most difficult to treat and account for a high percentage of absenteeism in the workplace. Furthermore, recent evidence indicates that sleep apnea can be a major underlying factor of cardiovascular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841840556
• ISBN13: 9781841840550
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"