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Sleep and Immune Function

Author(s) -

Freda DeKeyser Ganz

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

critical care nurse

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342

H-Index - 44

eISSN - 1940-8250

pISSN - 0279-5442

DOI - 10.4037/ccn2012689

Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , medicine , sleep architecture , immune system , psychological intervention , intensive care unit , neuroscience , electroencephalography , intensive care medicine , immunology , psychiatry , psychology , polysomnography , computer science , operating system

Scientists are only beginning to fully understand the purpose of sleep and its underlying mechanisms. Lack of sleep is associated with many diseases, including infection, and with increased mortality. Lack of proper sleep is an important problem in the intensive care unit, and interventions have been designed to improve it. Sleep is associated with immune function, and this relationship is partially based on the physiological basis of sleep, sleep architecture, the sleep-wake cycle, cytokines and the hypothalamic-pituitary axis.

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