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Association Between Sleep Duration and Body Mass Index Among US Low-Income Preschoolers.

Lydi-Anne Vézina-ImSheryl O HughesTom BaranowskiTheresa A Nicklas
Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2017)
Longer sleep duration was associated with lower zBMI among low-income preschoolers when controlling for preschoolers' characteristics, but this was no longer the case when also controlling for parents' characteristics. Additional studies are needed on the moderators of the sleep duration-zBMI association among low-income preschoolers.
Keyphrases
  • body mass index
  • physical activity
  • weight loss