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Osamu Itani1, Maki Ikeda, Yoshitaka Kaneita
1Division of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Nihon University.
Abstract:
Sleep has been a great interest in modern developed countries, epidemiological studies have been carried out extensively. In 2006, average sleep duration of the Japanese men, has been reported 7 hours 49 minutes (9 minutes shorter than 20 years ago) and women has been reported 7 hours 35 minutes (7 minutes shorter than 20 years ago). Sleep habits is affected by gender, age and also social factors and lifestyle. Thus, sleep-related problems have become an important public health issue in the society in developed countries. It is important to progress the preventive health promotion activities and results that are based on the development of future epidemiological studies of sleep.
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