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Here's How Sleep Studies and Polysomnography Relate to Each Other

Published on Mon Mar 24, 2014

Eliminating one points you to the other. Sleep studies are tests that record what happens to a patient’s body during sleep, and try to find out what causes sleep problems. Sleep studies usually are done in a hospital’s sleep lab or with portable equipment the patient uses at home. The most common type of sleep study is polysomnography. A basic [...]
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