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A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects

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The article was published on 1968-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 11993 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleep Stages & Hypnogram.

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Sleep apnea and sleep disruption in obese patients.

TL;DR: Severely or morbidly obese men are at extremely high risk for sleep apnea and should be routinely evaluated in the sleep laboratory for this condition, while for severely or morbidley obese women the physician should include a thorough sleep history in the clinical assessment.
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Partial night sleep deprivation reduces natural killer and cellular immune responses in humans.

TL;DR: Data implicate sleep in the modulation of immunity and demonstrate that even a modest disturbance of sleep produces a reduction of natural immune responses and T cell cytokine production.
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Diabetes and Sleep Disturbances: Findings from the Sleep Heart Health Study

TL;DR: The data suggest that diabetes is associated with periodic breathing, a respiratory abnormality associated with abnormalities in the central control of ventilation, which suggests the presence of a potentially treatable risk factor for CVD in the diabetic population.
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The effects of total sleep deprivation, selective sleep interruption and sleep recovery on pain tolerance thresholds in healthy subjects.

TL;DR: The analgesic effect of SWS recovery is apparently greater than the analgesia induced by level I (World Health Organization) analgesic compounds in mechanical pain experiments in healthy volunteers.
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