Journal article
Insufficient Sleep and Weight Status in High School Students: Should We Be Focusing on the Extremes?
Children's health care, v 42(2)
01 Apr 2013
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Abstract
The relation between insufficient sleep and weight status among adolescent populations has yielded equivocal findings. This study investigated the relation between length of sleep and weight status by analyzing data from 9,321 high school students on the 2007 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Findings indicate that insufficient sleep was associated with higher odds of being categorized as obese in only the most extreme range (5 hr or less of sleep on an average night). Differences in the sleepweight relation emerged when examined by gender and race/ethnicity. The implications of the results for prevention and intervention programs that address sleep and weight status among adolescents are considered.
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- Title
- Insufficient Sleep and Weight Status in High School Students: Should We Be Focusing on the Extremes?
- Creators
- Elizabeth Culnan - Drexel UniversityStephanie Brooks Holliday - Drexel UniversityBrian P. Daly - Drexel UniversityRicha Aggarwal - Drexel UniversityJacqueline D. Kloss - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Children's health care, v 42(2)
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000317750000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84876497412
- Other Identifier
- 991019169620004721
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