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SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2024

Social jetlag and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Arman Arab, Elham Karimi, Marta Garaulet, Frank A J L Scheer

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Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Social jetlag in a longitudinal Chinese wearable cohort: weekly variation, solar-time mismatch, and sleep-activity associations.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026
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  12. Optimal nap timing and body mass index: beyond duration.Journal of translational medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Arman ArabDivision of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6643-0551
Elham KarimiDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Marta GarauletDepartment of Physiology, Regional Campus of International Excellence, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4066-3509
Frank A J L ScheerDivision of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2014-7582
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USInstituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria · ESIsfahan University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

Role of Meal Timing in Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery in Obese IndividualsR01HL140574 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SCHEER, FRANK A, TAVAKKOLI, ALI · 2017 to 2023
$4.2M
Food Timing to Mitigate Adverse Consequences of Night WorkR01HL153969 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SCHEER, FRANK A · 2021 to 2025
$3.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL140574NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL153969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social jetlag, the weekly variation in sleep timing, is proposed to contribute to increased obesity risk, potentially because of the misalignment of behavioral cycles relative to the endogenous circadian timing system. This systematic review and meta-analysis aim to determine the association between social jetlag and adiposity-related measures using observational studies. We reviewed 477 references, of which 43 studies met inclusion criteria with a total sample size of 231,648. There was a positive association between social jetlag and body mass index (correlation coefficient [r]: 0.12; 95%CI, 0.07, 0.17; P < 0.001; I

Indexed as

Circadian RhythmJet Lag SyndromeObesityAdiposityBody Mass IndexHumansSleepcircadian misalignmentobesityoverweightsocial jetlag

Identifiers

PMID38072635
PMCPMC12510443
OpenAlexW4389526707

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