Sex differences in childhood sleep and health implications.
Stacey D Elkhatib SmidtTalia HittBabette S ZemelJonathan A MitchellPublished in: Annals of human biology (2022)
Sex differences in sleep appear to emerge in adolescence with more impaired sleep in females. This trend was also observed among pre-adolescent female children with ASD. Further research is needed on sex differences in childhood sleep and metabolic health and the underlying mechanisms driving these differences.