A Novel, Open Access Method to Assess Sleep Duration Using a Wrist-Worn Accelerometer.

Wrist-worn accelerometers are increasingly being used for the assessment of physical activity in population studies, but little is known about their value for sleep assessment. We developed a novel method of assessing sleep duration using data from 4,094 Whitehall II Study (United Kingdom, 2012-2013...

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Main Authors: Vincent T van Hees, Séverine Sabia, Kirstie N Anderson, Sarah J Denton, James Oliver, Michael Catt, Jessica G Abell, Mika Kivimäki, Michael I Trenell, Archana Singh-Manoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4646630?pdf=render