ArticlePsychoneuroendocrinology2018
Sleep quality is differentially related to adiposity in adults.
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- Pep19: A Novel Approach for Reducing Visceral Fat and Improving Sleep Quality in Obese Adults-Results From an Early-Stage Clinical Trial.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2025Trial
- Lifestyle factors and clustered patterns of body shape change in Korean adults: A longitudinal observational study.PloS one · 2026Observational
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- Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Sleep Quality, Insomnia, and Inflammatory Markers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Association between body roundness index (BRI) and sleep quality: a cross sectional study from 2022 to 2024.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2025Article
- High Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Oolong Tea Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Metabolic Disorders in Mice.ACS omega · 2023Article
- The Modulation of Adipokines, Adipomyokines, and Sleep Disorders on Carcinogenesis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Exercise Training Program Improves Subjective Sleep Quality and Physical Fitness in Severely Obese Bad Sleepers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Short Sleep Duration Was Associated with Increased Regional Body Fat in US Adults: The NHANES from 2011 to 2018.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Association between Objectively Measured Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep Quality in Japanese Adults: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Syndrome Metabolic Markers, Fitness and Body Fat Is Associated with Sleep Quality in Women with Severe/Morbid Obesity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia and Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in the Tianning Cohort.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
- Insufficient nocturnal sleep was associated with a higher risk of fibrosis in patients with diabetes with metabolic associated fatty liver disease.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2020Article
- Associations between poor sleep and glucose intolerance in prediabetes.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesSleep duration is associated with adiposity in adults. Abdominal adiposity specifically is strongly correlated with metabolic alterations, however, the relationships between abdominal adiposity and sleep quality are incompletely understood. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that abdominal adiposity is related to poor sleep quality while total adiposity is not; and to explore whether pathways, including immune system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, link abdominal adiposity to poor sleep quality.
methodsSubjects were 101 men and women aged 38.88 ± 11.96 years with body mass index between 29.35 ± 6.93 kg/m
resultsPoor sleep quality was related to greater visceral fat (r = 0.26; p < 0.05), but not total fat. The PSQ group had greater visceral fat compared to the NSQ group (1.11 ± 0.83 kg vs 0.79 ± 0.62 kg; p < 0.05), however, there was no difference in total fat mass (33.18 ± 14.21 kg vs 29.39 ± 13.03 kg; p = 0.24). The PSQ group had significantly greater leptin (1.37 ± 0.07 ng/ml vs 1.08 ± 0.08 ng/ml; p < 0.05), but hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity did not differ between the PSQ and NSQ groups.
conclusionsPoor sleep quality is associated with greater visceral adiposity and leptin secretion. Further research is needed to probe potential cause and effect relationships among visceral adipose tissue, leptin, and sleep quality.
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