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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
Sleep duration and overweight among Australian children and adolescents
Joey C Eisenmann1, Panteleimon Ekkekakis, Megan Holmes
1Department of Health and Human Performance, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA. jce@iastate.edu
Aim:
To examine the association between sleep and overweight and waist circumference (WC) in children and adolescents.
Methods:
Data were from a nationally representative sample of 6324 7-15-y-old males and females from the Australian Health and Fitness Survey. Associations between sleep duration and body mass index (BMI) and WC were examined by analysis of covariance, linear regression, and logistic regression.
Results:
In the total sample, there was a significant main effect across sleep-duration categories (
Conclusion:
Sleep duration was inversely related with overweight in young males but not females.
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