ReviewAnnals of human biology2021
Sex differences in childhood sleep and health implications.
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- Factors Related to High-School Students' Odds of Having Overweight or Obesity.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- The Influence of Substance Use on Sleep Duration Among South Korean Adolescents by Sex: A Secondary Analysis.Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN · 2025Article
- Sleep moderates how prenatal and childhood pollutant exposure impacts white matter microstructural integrity in adolescence.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Article
- A biopsychosocial approach to sleep health during puberty: Individual and contextual aspects and the role of gender differences. A narrative review.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- Early childhood sleep quality in a pediatric cohort: sex-specific differences.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Article
- Associations between different types of screen-based sedentary behavior and sleep among Chinese children and adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Sex Differences in Sleep and Physical Activity Patterns in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Clocks & sleep · 2024Article
- Sexual and Gender Minority Sleep Health Disparities and Minority Stress in Early Adolescence.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Sleep insufficiency and bedtime irregularity in children with ADHD: A population-based analysis.Sleep medicine · 2024Article
- The Association between Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Physical Fitness with Body Mass Index and Sleep Time in Chilean Girls and Boys: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Physical Activity and Sleep Quality in Spanish Primary School Children: Mediation of Sex and Maturational Stage.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Characteristics of 24-hour movement behaviours and their associations with mental health in children and adolescents.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2023Article
- Long wavelength light reduces the negative consequences of dim light at night.Neurobiology of disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextSleep is critical for optimal childhood metabolic health and neurodevelopment. However, there is limited knowledge regarding childhood sex differences in sleep, including children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and the impact of such differences on metabolic health.
objectiveTo evaluate if sex differences in childhood sleep exist and if sleep associates with metabolic health outcomes equally by sex. Using autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a case study, we also examine sleep sex differences in children with a neurodevelopmental disorder.
methodsA narrative review explored the literature focussing on sex differences in childhood sleep.
resultsSex differences in sleep were not detected among pre-adolescents. However, female adolescents were more likely to report impaired sleep than males. Childhood obesity is more common in males. Shorter sleep duration may be associated with obesity in male pre-adolescents/adolescents; although findings are mixed. ASD is male-predominant; yet, there was an indication that pre-adolescent female children with ASD had more impaired sleep.
conclusionSex differences in sleep appear to emerge in adolescence with more impaired sleep in females. This trend was also observed among pre-adolescent female children with ASD. Further research is needed on sex differences in childhood sleep and metabolic health and the underlying mechanisms driving these differences.
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