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1975 duration from a short to a healthier amount of time is associated with an attenuated …

Rates of obesity and sleep disturbances are substantial in adults. A number of cross-
sectional, longitudinal, and experimental studies have found that insufficient sleep and …

Background The prevalence of chronic sleep deprivation is increasing in modern societies
with negative health consequences. Recently, an association between short sleep and …

Obesity is associated with excessive daytime sleepiness, but its causality remains unclear.
We aimed to assess the extent to which intentional weight loss affects daytime sleepiness …

Obesity is a significant risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), and has
also been linked to reductions in sleep quality and quantity. Weight loss has been shown to …

Background Prior research on the relationship between sleep and attempted weight loss
failed to recognize the multidimensional nature of sleep. We examined the relationship …

Short sleep duration has been associated with obesity in numerous epidemiological studies.
However, such association studies cannot establish evidence of causality. Clinical …

Behavioral sleep restriction is becoming endemic in modern times. The evidence taken as a
whole suggests that insufficient sleep plays a role in the risk of obesity. At present it appears …

Systematic literature search for epidemiological evidence for an association of short sleep
with weight gain and eventual development of obesity provided 71 original studies and …

INTRODUCTION: Sleepiness is one of the cardinal complaints of patients in tertiary referral
centres for sleep disorders. It is commonly associated with sleep disorders, but the …