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Five stages of sleep. 

Five stages of sleep. 

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The Use of Sleep Loss as a Health Indicator Based on Women's Wellness Decisions Abstract Sleep loss is an important determinant of health status owing to its relationships with

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... humans, five stages of sleep occur and are defined by two sleep types known as rapid eye movement sleep (REM) and nonrapid eye movement sleep (NREM). Figure 2 outlines the five stages of sleep and the sleep type associated with each sleep stage described (Acharya, Chua, Chua, Min, & Tamura, 2010;Susmakova, 2004). Because both REM and NREM are strongly believed to promote a healthy mind and body, the conceptual framework of this research is that the mind and body need to be healthy in order to obtain a healthy state of sleep ( Mendez et al., 2012). ...

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