Self-reported and tracked nighttime smartphone use and their association with overweight and cardiometabolic risk markers.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902390 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
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Self-reported and tracked nighttime smartphone use and their association with overweight and cardiometabolic risk markers.
Andersen Thea Otte TO Sejling Christoffer C Jensen Andreas Kryger AK Dissing Agnete Skovlund AS Severinsen Elin Rosenbek ER Drews Henning Johannes HJ Sørensen Thorkild I A TIA Varga Tibor V TV Rod Naja Hulvej NH
Scientific reports 20240228 1
Nighttime smartphone use is associated with sleep problems, which in turn have a bidirectional association with overweight. We aim to investigate whether nighttime smartphone use and sleep are related to overweight and metabolic dysfunction in adult populations. We used data from three population samples (aged 16-89) from the SmartSleep Study, which included survey data (N = 29,838), high-resolution tracking data (N = 3446), follow-up data (N = 1768), and cardiometabolic risk markers (N = 242). ...[more]
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