Sleep duration as a mediator in the association between dietary intake of live microbes and insulin resistance: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insulin resistance and associated metabolic health symptoms remain a primary global health concern. In addition to healthy dietary and nutritional programs, sleep duration is closely related to and has been linked to healthy metabolism. This study aimed to determine the link between insulin resistance and sleep duration and the dietary intake of live microbes.

Methods

Data were collected from 15,927 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database from 2005 to 2018; this sample is equivalent to 209,316,590 individuals in the United States. The participants were categorized according to their consumption of foods containing live microbes: low, medium, high, and medium-high. The relationship between diets containing live microbes and the

SUBMITTER: Peng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11921493 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature