ArticlePreventive medicine reports2025
Amount and timing of physical activity in relation to sleep quality in the general middle-aged Dutch population: A cross-sectional analysis.
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- Differential benefits of 12-week morning vs. evening aerobic exercise on sleep and cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- The impact of physical activity and exercise timing on metabolic health among individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2026Review
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- Pain-induced sleep disturbances fully mediate the association between symptomatic hip and knee osteoarthritis and poor sleep quality : a cross-sectional study.Bone & joint open · 2026Article
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Abstract
Objectives: To examine whether the amount and timing of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) was associated with sleep quality and duration in the general population. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data of a Dutch cohort collected between 2008 and 2012. Timing of physical activity (measured using an accelerometer) was categorized as performing most MVPA in morning (06:00-12:00), afternoon (12:00-18:00), evening (18:00-00:00), or even distribution of MVPA over the day (reference). Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). We estimated OR with 95 % CI of a poor score on individual PSQI components and global PSQI score using logistic regression while adjusting for relevant covariates. Results: We analyzed 736 participants, of whom 57 % women, aged 56 (6) years, BMI 26.1 (4.2) kg/m Conclusions: Differences in sleep quality are unlikely to be biological mechanisms underlying the previously shown associations between timing of physical activity and metabolic health.
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