ArticleEuropean journal of public health2016
Ethnic differences in sleep duration at 5 years, and its relationship with overweight and blood pressure.
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- Impact of Short Sleep Duration on the Incidence of Obesity and Overweight among Children and Adolescents.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Correlates of inadequate sleep health among primary school children.Journal of sleep research · 2022Article
- Prevalence trends of hypertension and influence factors among children and adolescents aged 7-17 years in China, 2011-2015: A serial cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- 24-hour movement behaviour profiles and their transition in children aged 5.5 and 8 years - findings from a prospective cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Article
- Short or Irregular Sleep Duration in Early Childhood Increases Risk of Injury for Primary School-Age Children: A Nationwide Longitudinal Birth Cohort in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Predictors of Changes in Sleep Duration in Dutch Primary Schoolchildren: the ChecKid Study.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Sleep and BMI in South African urban and rural, high and low-income preschool children.BMC public health · 2021Observational
- Predictors of Sleep Duration and Sleep Disturbance in Children of a Culturally Diverse Region in North-Eastern Greece.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- Sleep duration and blood pressure in children: Analysis of the pan-European IDEFICS cohort.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudies on adult population indicate shorter sleep duration in ethnic minority groups than host populations. We examined ethnic differences in sleep duration and its relationship with overweight and blood pressure (BP) among children living in Amsterdam.
methodsParticipants include 2384 children (aged 5 years) and their mothers from the Amsterdam-based longitudinal study. Sleep was categorised into short sleep (<10 h/night) and normal sleep (10-11 h/night). Linear regressions ( Β: were used to study association between sleep duration and systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP). Prevalence ratios (PRs) were used to study ethnic differences in sleep duration and its association with overweight and raised BP.
resultsMinority groups reported shorter sleep duration compared to native Dutch, with prevalence ranging from 11.3% in Dutch to 53.1% in Ghanaians. Age-adjusted PRs ranged from 3.38 (95%CI 2.63-4.34) in Moroccans to 4.78 (95%CI 3.36-6.82) in Ghanaian compared with Dutch children. Increased prevalence of overweight was observed among children with short sleep in Dutch and Moroccans only, but this risk was no longer statistically significant after further adjustment for socioeconomic status. Short sleep was not related to SBP and DBP in all groups. No relationship was observed between short sleep and raised BP except for African Surinamese (3.65, 95% CI 1.23-10.8).
conclusionLike adults, children from ethnic minority populations sleep less hours than Dutch children. Efforts to improve ethnic inequalities in sleep hygiene should also include children at younger age. Associations as reported in adults with overweight and BP could not consistently be replicated in children, however.
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