Background: Reduced sleep duration has been increasingly reported to predict obesity.
However, timing and regularity of sleep may also be important. In this study, the cross …

Background: Reduced sleep has been reported to predict obesity in children and young
adults. However, studies based on self-report have been unable to identify an association in …

Objective Previous research suggests that sleep duration is associated with obesity and
weight gain. However, the majority of these studies are of cross-sectional design, with only a …

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have demonstrated an association between sleep
duration and obesity, but few population-based studies have examined the association. We …

Abstract Study Objectives: Sleep deprivation has been hypothesized to contribute toward
obesity by decreasing leptin, increasing ghrelin, and compromising insulin sensitivity. This …

Abstract Study Objectives: Obesity has become a major health problem with increasing
prevalence. Given the limited availability of effective treatment of weight problems, the …

Objective: Several epidemiologic, longitudinal studies have reported that short sleep
duration is a risk factor for the incidence of obesity. However, the vast majority of these …

Background The connections between long sleep duration and obesity or weight gain
warrant further examination. This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate whether long sleep …

Abstract Study Objectives To investigate the association between short sleep duration and
elevated body mass index (BMI) and obesity in a large sample of Japanese adults over a …

Objective Sleep duration is associated with obesity and cardiometabolic disease. It is
unclear, though, how these relationship differs across age groups. Methods Data from 2007 …