Sleep and body mass index in infancy and early childhood (6-36 mo): a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relatively, few longitudinal studies have evaluated the association between sleep and body mass index (BMI) among younger children. In addition, few studies have evaluated the bidirectional longitudinal association between sleep duration and child BMI.

Objective

The objective of the study is to determine in children aged 6 to 36 months (1) the cross-sectional association of sleep duration and sleep problems with child BMI z score, (2) whether sleep duration predicts changes in child BMI z score, and (3) and whether BMI z score can predict changes in child sleep duration.

Methods

This study used longitudinal data from the BeeBOFT study (N = 2308). Child sleep duration and sleep problems (indicated by night awakenings and sleep-onset latency) were parent repo

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature