Cross-sectional studies are limited in their ability to explain how sleep habits lead to disease because they cannot distinguish whether a sleep habit causes a disease or if an existing disease affects sleep patterns.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Harvard Medical School
  Why Sleep Matters: Consequences of Sleep Deficiency

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• Why Sleep Matters: Consequences of Sleep Deficiency sleep.hms.harvard.edu Harvard Medical School via serper

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• sleep habits concept
• cross-sectional studies concept