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High sleep duration variability is an independent risk factor for weight gain

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Abstract

Objective

This study was conducted to evaluate the association between weight gain and variability of sleep duration.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted involving apparently healthy individuals aged 20 years or older who underwent annual health checkup at the Center for Preventive Medicine, St. Luke’s International Hospital, between 2007 and 2010. The body mass index (BMI) of each participant was measured, and the change in BMI during the study period was calculated. The sleep duration was obtained using a questionnaire that was filled out by participants each year, and the variability in the sleep duration was calculated by dividing the standard deviation (SD) of the sleep duration for 3 years by the square root of the number of data points. Multivariate linear regression analysis was used to explore the association between the change in BMI and the variability of the sleep duration, adjusting for age, sex, alcohol consumption, current smoking, baseline sleep duration, past medical history, and level of physical activity.

Results

A total of 21,148 participants were included in this study. The mean age (SD) was 51 (12) years, and 10,993 (49.6%) participants were male. The mean baseline BMI was 22.4 (SD 3.2). According to the self-reported data, the mean sleep duration (SD) was 6.2 (1.0) h, and the mean of the SD of sleep duration for each participant was 0.32 (min–max, 0–7). The result of the linear regression analysis showed that greater variability in the sleep duration was independently related to an increase in BMI (β coefficient = 0.31; 95% CI = 0.01–0.61).

Conclusion

The variability of sleep duration is related to body weight gain. Maintaining a constant sleep duration may be recommended for controlling body weight.

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We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Toshiko Kawakita for contributing data from the Center for Preventive Medicine at St. Luke’s International Hospital.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Daiki Kobayashi, Osamu Takahashi, Hiroko Arioka & Tsuguya Fukui

  2. Department of Clinical Research and Informatics, International Medical Centre of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

    Takuro Shimbo

  3. The National Center for University Entrance Examinations, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Okubo

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Kobayashi, D., Takahashi, O., Shimbo, T. et al. High sleep duration variability is an independent risk factor for weight gain. Sleep Breath 17, 167–172 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-012-0665-7

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