Short sleep duration has been associated with obesity in numerous epidemiological studies.
However, such association studies cannot establish evidence of causality. Clinical …

Systematic literature search for epidemiological evidence for an association of short sleep
with weight gain and eventual development of obesity provided 71 original studies and …

Poor sleep has increasingly gained attention as a potential contributor to the recent obesity
epidemic. The increased prevalence of obesity in Western nations over the past half‐century …

Short sleep duration appears to be a novel and independent risk factor for obesity. With the
growing prevalence of chronic sleep restriction, any causal association between reduced …

Objective: The recent obesity epidemic has been accompanied by a parallel growth in
chronic sleep deprivation. Physiologic studies suggest sleep deprivation may influence …

Behavioral sleep restriction is becoming endemic in modern times. The evidence taken as a
whole suggests that insufficient sleep plays a role in the risk of obesity. At present it appears …

Emerging evidence suggests that chronic sleep restriction contributes to obesity. Targeting
short sleep duration may therefore offer a novel and effective method of preventing and …

Recent epidemiological and ecological trends in humans indicate a possible causal
relationship between sleep duration and energy balance. We aimed to find experimental …

Background The prevalence of chronic sleep deprivation is increasing in modern societies
with negative health consequences. Recently, an association between short sleep and …

A growing number of studies have identified chronic sleep restriction as a potential risk
factor for obesity. This could have important implications for how obesity is prevented and …