Trial reportInternational journal of obesity (2005)2015
Nighttime sleep duration and hedonic eating in childhood.
Trial report in International journal of obesity (2005), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Sleep, Diet, and Cardiometabolic Health Investigations: a Systematic Review of Analytic Strategies.Current nutrition reports · 2018Pooled it
- Childhood sleep is prospectively associated with adolescent alcohol and marijuana use.Annals of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Associations between sleep and appetitive traits in higher-income preschoolers: A six-month study.Appetite · 2024Article
- Independent and Combined Association of Lifestyle Behaviours and Physical Fitness with Body Weight Status in Schoolchildren.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Sleep dimensions are associated with obesity, poor diet quality and eating behaviors in school-aged children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Sleep, nutritional status and eating behavior in children: a review study.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2022Review
- Associations between paediatric fatigue and eating behaviours.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
- The effect of mild sleep deprivation on diet and eating behaviour in children: protocol for the Daily Rest, Eating, and Activity Monitoring (DREAM) randomized cross-over trial.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Short sleep duration is associated with specific food intake increase among school-aged children in China: a national cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Sleep duration and quality are associated with eating behavior in low-income toddlers.Appetite · 2019Article
- Multi-behavioral obesogenic phenotypes among school-aged boys and girls along the birth weight continuum.PloS one · 2019Article
- Poor dietary habits in Greek schoolchildren are strongly associated with screen time: results from the EYZHN (National Action for Children's Health) Program.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Article
- Shorter sleep duration is associated with higher energy intake and an increase in BMI z-score in young children predisposed to overweight.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Observational
- Association between sleep duration and obesity is age- and gender-dependent in Chinese urban children aged 6-18 years: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Sleep quality and duration is related with diet and obesity in young adolescent living in Sicily, Southern Italy.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigher food intake is implicated in the elevated risk of obesity associated with shorter sleep in children, but the mechanisms driving higher intake are uncertain. Research in adults suggests that acute sleep deprivation affects brain reward systems, which increases responsiveness to palatable foods. However, there have been few studies addressing habitual sleep duration, and few in children, among whom the strongest associations with body mass index (BMI) are seen.
objectiveThe objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that shorter-sleeping children are more food responsive and explore the mediation of the relationship between sleep and weight by food responsiveness (FR).
methodsParticipants were families from Gemini, a UK twin birth cohort, who had provided complete information on their children's sleep and appetite at age 5 years (n=1008). One child from each twin pair was randomly selected for analyses. Nighttime sleep duration was calculated from parent-reported bedtime and wake time, and categorised as shorter, adequate or longer according to age-specific reference values. FR was assessed with the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire. BMI s.d. scores (BMI-SDS) were calculated from parent-measured heights and weights using the UK 1990 reference data and were available for 494 children.
resultsThere was a significant linear association between shorter sleep and higher FR at age 5 years (P for linear trend=0.032), which was maintained after adjusting for age, sex, birth weight, maternal education and BMI-SDS. In the subset with BMI data at age 5 years, shorter sleep was associated with higher BMI-SDS (P=0.026) as expected. Testing for mediation by adding FR to the model attenuated the linear relationship to borderline significance (P=0.049), suggesting partial mediation.
conclusionsShorter sleep in childhood is associated with higher FR, which may partly explain the association between shorter sleep and adiposity in childhood.
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