Sleep is an involuntary behaviour, biologically fundamental to survival and wellbeing.
However, sleep is increasingly neglected, with significant health implications. Recent …

Short sleep duration is considered a potential risk for overweight/obesity in childhood and
adolescence. However, most of the evidence on this topic is obtained from cross‐sectional …

The objectives were to systematically investigate the multiple dimensions of sleep and their
association with overweight or obesity among primary school‐aged children. CINHAL …

Short and long sleep duration have been associated with risk of obesity in children and
adolescents. Evidence in adults is more mixed, with biological and psychosocial factors …

Short sleep appears to elevate obesity risk in youth; however, sleep is a multidimensional
construct, and few studies have investigated parameters beyond duration. The objective of …

Background Inadequate sleep duration is a significant risk factor for obesity in children.
However, the mechanism by which poor sleep increases the risk for obesity in childhood is …

Purpose To examine the association between sleep and weight status across multiple
dimensions of sleep (duration, efficiency, quality and timing) and assess the cumulative …

Objective: Short sleep duration is recognized as a significant risk factor in childhood obesity;
however, the question as to how sleep contributes to the development of obesity remains …

Background The relationship of insufficient sleep with the increased risk of obesity has been
reported, but less is known about other sleep dimensions in the sleep-obesity associations …

A meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies found that shorter-time sleep was correlated with
increased risk of obesity in children. However, findings from prospective cohort studies were …