ReviewJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2013
The role of sleep duration in the regulation of energy balance: effects on energy intakes and expenditure.
Review in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02835261 (Impact of Sleep Restriction on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pre vs Postmenopausal Women), which is not on this map. Cited by 109 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Impact of Sleep Restriction on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pre vs Postmenopausal Women
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109 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 216 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The effects of partial sleep deprivation on energy balance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of the impact of sleep duration on adiposity and components of energy balance.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2015Pooled it
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- No Effect of High Eating Frequency Compared with Low Eating Frequency on Appetite and Inflammation Biomarkers: Results from a Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Trial
- Impact of ¡Míranos! on parent-reported home-based healthy energy balance-related behaviors in low-income Latino preschool children: a clustered randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Trial
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- Influence of sleep restriction on weight loss outcomes associated with caloric restriction.Sleep · 2018Trial
- Sleep extension is a feasible lifestyle intervention in free-living adults who are habitually short sleepers: a potential strategy for decreasing intake of free sugars? A randomized controlled pilot study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Trial
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- Experimental sleep curtailment causes wake-dependent increases in 24-h energy expenditure as measured by whole-room indirect calorimetry.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2013Trial
- Association between healthy eating index and sleep quality and duration in older adults: findings from the NeLSA cohort Study, Iran.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between sleep duration and thirst in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Adverse Cardiometabolic Impacts of Sleep Fragmentation and Estradiol Suppression: An Experimental Model of Menopause.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2026Article
- The interplay of night eating syndrome with resting metabolic rate, anthropometric measures, and sleep quality in normal-weight female university students: a case-control study.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Association between sleep duration and intrinsic capacity in older adults: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study and Bayesian network analyses.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Development and external validation of an interpretable machine learning-based model for obesity risk prediction in 2-18-year-old children and adolescents in Beijing and Tangshan.Journal of global health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Short sleep duration and obesity are common occurrence in today's society. An extensive literature from cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiological studies shows a relationship between short sleep and prevalence of obesity and weight gain. However, causality cannot be inferred from such studies. Clinical intervention studies have examined whether reducing sleep in normal sleepers, typically sleeping 7-9 h/night, can affect energy intake, energy expenditure, and endocrine regulators of energy balance. The aim of this review is to evaluate studies that have assessed food intake, energy expenditure, and leptin and ghrelin levels after periods of restricted and normal sleep. Most studies support the notion that restricting sleep increases food intake, but the effects on energy expenditure are mixed. Differences in methodology and component of energy expenditure analyzed may account for the discrepancies. Studies examining the effects of sleep on leptin and ghrelin have provided conflicting results with increased, reduced, or unchanged leptin and ghrelin levels after restricted sleep compared to normal sleep. Energy balance of study participants and potential sex differences may account for the varied results. Studies should strive for constant energy balance and feeding schedules when assessing the role of sleep on hormonal profile. Although studies suggest that restricting sleep may lead to weight gain via increased food intake, research is needed to examine the impact on energy expenditure and endocrine controls. Also, studies have been of short duration, and there is little knowledge on the reverse question: does increasing sleep duration in short sleepers lead to negative energy balance?
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