Development of sleep patterns in children with obese and normal-weight parents.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To study the sleep development and sleep characteristics in children at different obesity risks, based on parental weight, and also to explore their weekday-weekend sleep variations and associated family factors.

Methods

A total of 145 children participating in a longitudinal obesity prevention project were included, of which 37 had normal-weight parents (low obesity risk), and 108 had overweight/obese parents (high obesity risk). Sleep diaries at ages 1 and 2 years were used to study sleep development in children at different obesity risks. Objectively assessed sleep using an accelerometer at 2 years of age was used to analyse weekday-weekend sleep variations.

Results

There was no difference in sleep development from age 1 to age 2 among children at different obe

SUBMITTER: Xiu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6899924 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature