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SUBMITTER: Sokol RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7103530 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of obesity (2005) 20191003 4
Research suggests that sleep duration and obesity are related, but the direction of this association remains uncertain. We applied autoregressive cross-lag models to evaluate the directionality of the relationship between sleep duration and BMI from adolescence through emerging and young adulthood, life stages where the risk for developing obesity are particularly high. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we examined sex-stratified associat ...[more]