The editorial, titled "Do We Sleep Too Much?" comments on a study by A. Tamakoshi and Y. Ohno in the same issue of the journal**, as well as the results of two other studies: the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2003;163:205-209), and the Cancer Prevention Study II by Kripke, that was reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry (2002; 59: 131-136).***
See the web sites below for a synopsis of current articles in SLEEP and a news release about the 2002 Kripke study that surveyed more than one million adults.
* http://www.journalsleep.org/Editorials2004/SleepTooMuch.pdf
** http://www.journalsleep.org/citation/sleepdata.asp?citationid=2317
*** http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2002/02_08_Kripke.html
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