Yu, Jiaxiao, Jin, Huili, Wen, Li, Zhang, Wenjin, Saffery, Richard, Tong, Chao, Qi, Hongbo, Kilby, Mark D. and Baker, Philip N. (2021) Insufficient sleep during infancy is correlated with excessive weight gain in childhood: A longitudinal twin cohort study. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17 (11). pp. 2147-2154. ISSN 1550-9389
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Study Objectives: To examine total sleep duration in infancy and the associations of insufficient sleep duration with later weight gain and the risk of overweight in a longitudinal twin cohort study. Methods:ThedataforthisstudyarefromtheLongitudinalTwinStudy(LoTiS),atwin-pregnancybirth cohortstudythatwas carriedout inChina(n=186pairs). The sleep data were collected at 6 months using the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire that was completed by parents with the assistance of a research assistant. Anthropometric data were obtained from the children's health clinic records at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. Results: There were no significant differences between infants with insufficient sleep and those with sufficient sleep in terms of height, weight, body mass index, incidence of overweight, and body fat mass, while infants with insufficient sleep duration were predisposed to gain excessive weight from 6 to 12 and 6 to 18 months of age (all P < .05). After adjusting for confounding variables, insufficient sleep duration was found to be correlated with excessive weight gain from 6 to 18 months of age (odds ratio: 3.47; 95% confidence interval, 1.23-9.78). The relationship was more pronounced in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins. Conclusions: Insufficient total sleep duration at the age of 6 months is correlated with the risk of excessive weight gain at 18 months of age in twins, particularly in monozygotic twins.
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Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Academy of Sleep Medicine. All rights reserved. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | child overweight,excessive weight gain,infants,sleep duration,twin study,pulmonary and respiratory medicine,neurology,clinical neurology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2740 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2025 13:30 |
Last Modified: | 30 May 2025 13:30 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99346 |
DOI: | 10.5664/jcsm.9350 |
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