SynthesisPediatric obesity2020
Sleep and obesity among children: A systematic review of multiple sleep dimensions.
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89 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies Exploring the Link Between Physical Inactivity and Indicators of Childhood Overweight/Obesity and Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity Risk in Western Countries.Current obesity reports · 2026Pooled it
- Shared Determinants of Poor Sleep, Obesity and Adiposity in Adolescents Aged 8-18-Years: A Systematic Review.Journal of sleep research · 2025Pooled it
- It's Time to Put the Nap in Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAPSACC): A Systematic Review Demonstrating the Impact of Child Care on Sleep Outcomes in Early Childhood.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Pooled it
- Reallocating Time Between 24-h Movement Behaviors for Obesity Management Across the Lifespan: A Pooled Data Meta-Analysis of More Than 9800 Participants from Seven Countries.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Menstrual disturbances and its association with sleep disturbances: a systematic review.BMC women's health · 2023Pooled it
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- Lifestyle Screening Tools for Children in the Community Setting: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Sleep and obesity among children: A systematic review of multiple sleep dimensions.Pediatric obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Losing sleep influences dietary intake in children: a longitudinal compositional analysis of a randomised crossover trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Trial
- Family-based treatment of children with severe obesity in a public healthcare setting: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Clinical obesity · 2022Trial
- Longitudinal Associations Among Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Sleep Onset Consistency With Body Mass Index z-Score Among Toddlers in Low-income Families.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Trial
- Sleep-wake patterns in newborns are associated with infant rapid weight gain and incident adiposity in toddlerhood.Pediatric obesity · 2021Trial
- Subjective Sleep Timing and Social Jet Lag Relate to Neural Activation During Reward Feedback in Adolescence.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Sleep Duration and Sun Exposure in Portuguese Children: Associations With Obesity Indicators.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
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- Discrepancies in reporting lifestyle and dietary habits by children and parents and their association with anthropometric parameters in 10-12-year-old Polish students: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Social Withdrawal, Eating Behaviors, and Daytime Sleepiness in Adolescents with Obesity: A Biopsychosocial Case-Control Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role of parenting in associations of weight status with sleep duration and timing for children with mild sleep-disordered breathing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- Childhood OSAS and Obesity: Prospective Associations of Anthropometric Markers With Objective Sleep Outcomes in the CHAT Trial.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The objectives were to systematically investigate the multiple dimensions of sleep and their association with overweight or obesity among primary school-aged children. CINHAL, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Medline, Cochrane, Embase, and PubMed databases were searched for papers reporting on an association between children's sleep and weight status. Studies on clinical populations, published in languages other than English, without objectively measured weight status, or where weight status was reported outside the outlined age bracket (5-13 years) were excluded. A total of 34 248 citations were extracted from our systematic search protocol, of which 112 were included for detailed review. Compared with sleep duration, of which 86/103 articles found a significant inverse association between sleep duration and measured weight status, few studies examined other dimensions of sleep, such as quality, efficiency and bed/wake times, and relationship with weight status. Where studies existed, variation in defining and measurement of these dimensions restricted comparison and potentially influenced discrepancies across results. Overall, the findings of this review warrant the need for further research of the outlined dimensions of sleep. Future research would benefit from clarity on definitions across the different dimensions, along with the use of valid and reliable tools.
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