Cumulative exposure to short sleep and body mass outcomes: a prospective study.

ABSTRACT: Short sleep duration is associated with excess body mass among adolescents and young adults. The mechanisms theorized to drive that association suggest that persistent exposure to short sleep should be associated with greater accumulations of body mass. We use prospective cohort data from four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1994-2009; n = 14 800) to examine associations between cumulative exposure to short sleep throughout adolescence and early adulthood and obesity and elevated waist circumference outcomes. We compare several clinical and distribution-based standards of short sleep to assess which measures are associated most strongly with body mass. Cumulative exposure to short sleep exhibits dose-response associations with obesity and elevated wa

SUBMITTER: Krueger PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5563465 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature