ReviewCurrent obesity reports2016
Sleep Duration and Obesity in Adults: What Are the Connections?
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- OBEDIS Core Variables Project: European Expert Guidelines on a Minimal Core Set of Variables to Include in Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trials of Obesity Interventions.Obesity facts · 2020Guideline
- Examining Sleep Quality Following Sleeve Gastrectomy Among Patients with Loss-of-Control Eating.Obesity surgery · 2019Trial
- Short sleep duration is a significant risk factor of obesity: A multicenter observational study of healthy adults in Japan.PloS one · 2025Observational
- Non-linear association of sleep duration with osteoarthritis among U.S. middle-aged and older adults.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Association between sleep duration and serum neurofilament light chain levels among adults in the United States.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Association between obesity and sleep disorder in the elderly: evidence from NHANES 2005-2018.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Longitudinal associations between sleep and BMI in a low-income, predominantly Black American sample.Sleep health · 2023Article
- Gender-specific factors contributing to visceral obesity including the sleep-obesity relationship: a large-scale cross-sectional study from East Asia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sex-specific association of sleep duration with subclinical indicators of metabolic diseases among asymptomatic adults.Lipids in health and disease · 2022Article
- Relationship between sleep duration and quality and glycated hemoglobin, body mass index, and self-reported health in Marshallese adults.Sleep health · 2021Article
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- Down-regulation of a cytokine secreted from peripheral fat bodies improves visual attention while reducing sleep in Drosophila.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Association Between Sleep Quality and Semen Parameters and Reproductive Hormones: A Cross-Sectional Study in Zhejiang, China.Nature and science of sleep · 2020Article
- Obesity: novel and unusual predisposing factors.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2020Review
- Sleep duration and body mass index: moderating effect of self-perceived stress and age. Results of a cross-sectional population-based study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Short sleep-poor sleep? A polysomnographic study in a large population-based sample of women.Journal of sleep research · 2019Article
- Male sleep duration and fecundability in a North American preconception cohort study.Fertility and sterility · 2018Article
- Meal Frequency and Timing Are Associated with Changes in Body Mass Index in Adventist Health Study 2.The Journal of nutrition · 2017Article
- Sleep Quality and Body Composition Variations in Obese Male Adults after 14 Weeks of Yoga Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of yogaArticle
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Abstract
Collectively, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on self-reported sleep duration and obesity do not show a clear pattern of association with some showing a negative linear relationship, some showing a U-shaped relationship, and some showing no relationship. Associations between sleep duration and obesity seem stronger in younger adults. Cross-sectional studies using objectively measured sleep duration (actigraphy or polysomnography (PSG)) also show this mixed pattern whereas all longitudinal studies to date using actigraphy or PSG have failed to show a relationship with obesity/weight gain. It is still too early and a too easy solution to suggest that changing the sleep duration will cure the obesity epidemic. Given novel results on emotional stress and poor sleep as mediating factors in the relationship between sleep duration and obesity, detection and management of these should become the target of future clinical efforts as well as future research.
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