Associations of sleep with food cravings and loss-of-control eating in youth: An ecological momentary assessment study.

Megan N ParkerSarah LeMay-RussellNatasha A SchveyRoss D CrosbyEliana RamirezNichole R KellyLisa M ShankMeghan E ByrneScott G EngelTaylor N SwansonKweku G DjanEsther A KwartengLoie M FaulknerAnna ZennoSheila M BradySusan Z YanovskiMarian Tanofsky-Kraff Jack A Yanovski

Published in: Pediatric obesity (2021)

In youth, weekly, but not nightly, shifts in multiple facets of sleep were associated with LOC-eating severity; associations were not significant for food cravings. Sleep should be assessed as a potentially modifiable target in paediatric LOC-eating and obesity prevention programs.

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