Sleep patterns in pregnancy: a longitudinal study of polysomnography recordings during pregnancy. - Concepedia

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Sleep patterns in pregnancy: a longitudinal study of polysomnography recordings during pregnancy.

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1999

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S J Schorr, Anju Chawla, Meenakshi Devidas, Christopher A. Sullivan, Robert W. Naef, Janice C. Morrison

Abstract

Sleep in pregnancy is characterized by loss of normal slow-wave sleep. Thus, sleep stages 3 and 4 are shortened during pregnancy. This sleep alteration is persistent when followed longitudinally during pregnancy.