ArticleChronobiology international2020
The association between sleep chronotype and obesity among black and white participants of the Bogalusa Heart Study.
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- Diurnal preference and depressive symptomatology: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
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- Dietary diversity and its associations with sleep quality and chronotype in young and middle-aged adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Association of dietary insulin index (DII) and dietary insulin load (DIL) with circadian rhythm and quality of sleep among overweight and obese women: a cross-sectional study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2024Article
- The mediating role of obesity in the associations of meal-specific dietary patterns and chrono-nutrition components with cardiometabolic risk factors: structural equation modeling.Nutrition & metabolism · 2024Article
- Chronotype is associated with eating behaviors, physical activity and overweight in school-aged children.Nutrition journal · 2023Article
- Chronotype and Cardiometabolic Parameters in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Findings.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Chronotypes and their Association with Obesity-Related Lifestyle Behaviors among Young Female Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- The Effect of Chronotype on Addictive Eating Behavior and BMI among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The shades of grey in adipose tissue reprogramming.Bioscience reports · 2022Review
- Chronotype, circadian rhythm, and psychiatric disorders: Recent evidence and potential mechanisms.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Research indicates that sleep duration and quality are inter-related factors that contribute to obesity, but few studies have focused on sleep chronotype, representing an individual's circadian proclivity, nor assessed these factors in racially diverse middle-aged samples. We examined the associations between chronotype and obesity among black and white men and women participating in the Bogalusa Heart Study (BHS).Body mass index (BMI) and sleep data were available for 1,197 middle-aged men and women (mean age 48.2 ± 5.3 years) who participated in the BHS 2013-2016. Based on the reduced Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire's cutoff values for chronotypes, we combined 'definitely morning' and 'moderately morning' types into 'morning' type, 'definitely evening' and 'moderately evening' types into 'evening' type and kept those who were "neither" type in a separate group. We used 'morning' type as the referent group. Obesity was defined as a BMI ≥ 30. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to examine associations adjusting for sex, age, education, smoking, alcohol use and drug use, depression, shift work, physical activity and sleep duration.Evening chronotype, reported by 11.1% of participants, was associated with obesity after multi-variable adjustment, including shift work, physical activity and sleep duration (OR 1.67, 95% CI: 1.08-2.56). However, once stratified by race (black/white), this association was found only among white participants (OR = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.12-3.25) after full adjustment.In our biracial, community-based population, evening chronotype was independently associated with obesity, specifically among white participants. Further research is needed to identify behavioral, endocrine, nutritional and genetic pathways which underlie these associations.
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