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SUBMITTER: Xiao Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842900 | biostudies-other | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Xiao Qian Q Arem Hannah H Moore Steven C SC Hollenbeck Albert R AR Matthews Charles E CE
American journal of epidemiology 20130918 11
The relationship between sleep and obesity or weight gain in adults, particularly older populations, remains unclear. In a cohort of 83,377 US men and women aged 51-72 years, we prospectively investigated the association between self-reported sleep duration and weight change over an average of 7.5 years of follow-up (1995-2004). Participants were free of cancer, heart disease, and stroke at baseline and throughout the follow-up. We observed an inverse association between sleep duration per night ...[more]