TY - JOUR T1 - Sleep in adolescents and young adults JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 424 LP - 428 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-5-424 VL - 17 IS - 5 AU - Ellen S Bruce AU - Laura Lunt AU - Janet E McDonagh Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/17/5/424.abstract N2 - Sleep has an important role in maintaining health and wellbeing; this relationship is becoming increasingly recognised for adolescents and young adults. Many physicians will encounter young people who present with complaints or conditions that have some relation to poor sleep. This review article looks at why sleep matters within this population group, how it can impact on longer term health consequences and discusses some tools to help enable the clinician to evaluate and address sleep within clinical practice. ER -