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Sleep quality in the end of pregnancy and its relevance in labor

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Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa (AFIP) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

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Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa (AFIP) and HH is recipient of CNPq fellowship.

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  1. Department of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Napoleão de Barros 925, Vila Clementino, São Paulo, SP, 04120-050, Brazil

    Leandro Lucena, Sergio Tufik & Helena Hachul

  2. Department of Gynecology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Helena Hachul

  3. Department of Gynecology, Casa de Saúde Santa Marcelina, São Paulo, Brazil

    Helena Hachul

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Lucena, L., Tufik, S. & Hachul, H. Sleep quality in the end of pregnancy and its relevance in labor. Arch Gynecol Obstet 298, 843–844 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-018-4876-4

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