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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2019

The Effects of Sleep Loss on Military Physical Performance.

Clementine Grandou, Lee Wallace, Hugh H K Fullagar, Rob Duffield, Simon Burley

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clementine GrandouSport and Exercise Discipline Group, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
Lee WallaceSport and Exercise Discipline Group, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
Hugh H K FullagarSport and Exercise Discipline Group, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia. Hugh.Fullagar@uts.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9426-5373
Rob DuffieldSport and Exercise Discipline Group, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
Simon BurleySport and Exercise Discipline Group, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
University of Technology Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As part of both training and active service, military members can be exposed to prolonged periods of sleep loss. Given the extent of physical and cognitive performances viewed as critical to successful military performance, such sleep disruption may present risk to health and performance. The primary aim of this narrative review was to investigate evidence on the effect of inadequate sleep on measures of aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, muscular strength and muscular endurance in military personnel. Sleep loss appears to have the greatest negative impact on aerobic capacity, muscular endurance and military-specific performance in military populations. The findings showed varied results for handgrip strength and anaerobic capacity, with sleep loss inducing a decrease in mean power of the upper body. In comparison to other measures of performance, lower-body muscular strength appeared to be resilient to sleep restriction. However, due to the limited evidence and inter-individual variability in results there is no clear consensus on the specific volume of sleep loss that induces significant or meaningful performance decrements. The difficulties of conducting well-designed and -controlled interventions in military populations are appreciated. However, due to the low quality of reporting and lack of control for confounders (i.e. physical activity, load carriage, prior sleep debt, motivation and energy intake) in the majority of studies, it is difficult to establish the relationship between sleep loss and physical performance in military populations.

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Military PersonnelMuscle StrengthPhysical EndurancePhysical Functional PerformanceHand StrengthHumansOxygen ConsumptionSleep Deprivation

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PMID31102110
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