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The metabolic consequences of sleep deprivationKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 1027, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep Med Rev 11:163-78. 2007..The present article reviews the current evidence in support of these three mechanisms that might link short sleep and increased obesity and diabetes risk...
The association between pubertal status and sleep duration and quality among a nationally representative sample of U. S. adolescentsKristen L Knutson
Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, USA
Am J Hum Biol 17:418-24. 2005..The results, which are based on a large sample size, warrant further examination with more objective measures into the association between sleep and growth and development among adolescents...- Role of sleep duration and quality in the risk and severity of type 2 diabetes mellitusKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1768-74. 2006..Combined with existing evidence linking sleep loss to increased diabetes risk, these data suggest that optimizing sleep duration and quality should be tested as an intervention to improve glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes... - Stability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Questionnaires over 1 year in early middle-aged adults: the CARDIA studyKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep 29:1503-6. 2006..To describe the stability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) scores over 1 year among a population-based sample of black and white early middle-aged adults... - Intra-individual daily and yearly variability in actigraphically recorded sleep measures: the CARDIA studyKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, Chicago, IL, USA
Sleep 30:793-6. 2007..To describe the day-to-day and year-to-year variation in sleep characteristics among early middle-aged adults... - Sleep duration and overweight in adolescents: self-reported sleep hours versus time diariesKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Pediatrics 119:e1056-62. 2007..We expected that the 2 measures of sleep would be strongly correlated and that the time-diary sleep would be more strongly associated with overweight risk because it is likely the more accurate measure of sleep... - Association between sleep and blood pressure in midlife: the CARDIA sleep studyKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1055-61. 2009..Our objective was to examine both cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between objectively measured sleep and BP... - Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between objectively measured sleep duration and body mass index: the CARDIA Sleep StudyDiane S Lauderdale
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:805-13. 2009..The mechanism underlying the cross-sectional association is not clear... - Predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in obese adults who are chronic short sleepersKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep Med 13:484-9. 2012..Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is common in obese adults, but not all obese adults have SDB. The aim of these analyses was to determine what predicted SDB in a sample of obese adults... - Predictors of slow-wave sleep in a clinic-based sampleBabak Mokhlesi
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Sleep Res 21:170-5. 2012..Future research needs to explore potential reasons for reduced slow-wave sleep in these individuals... - Objectively measured sleep characteristics among early-middle-aged adults: the CARDIA studyDiane S Lauderdale
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:5-16. 2006..Income was independently associated with sleep latency and efficiency. Sleep duration and quality, which have consequences for health, are strongly associated with race, sex, and socioeconomic status... 
Prevalence, clinical features, and CPAP adherence in REM-related sleep-disordered breathing: a cross-sectional analysis of a large clinical populationWalter Conwell
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep Breath 16:519-26. 2012..We also investigated how frequently CPAP therapy was recommended in patients with REM-related SDB and if they had lower CPAP adherence compared to non-stage-specific SDB...- Does inadequate sleep play a role in vulnerability to obesity?Kristen L Knutson
Section of Pulmonary Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60622, USA
Am J Hum Biol 24:361-71. 2012..Future human biology research should consider variation in sleep characteristics among different populations and determine whether the associations between sleep and obesity observed in Western populations persist elsewhere... - Self-reported and measured sleep duration: how similar are they?Diane S Lauderdale
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Epidemiology 19:838-45. 2008..The extent to which self reports of sleep duration are similar to objective measures and whether individual characteristics influence the degree of similarity are not known... - Trends in the prevalence of short sleepers in the USA: 1975-2006Kristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep 33:37-45. 2010..To determine (1) whether short sleep has increased over 31 years; (2) whether trends in short sleep differed by employment status; (3) which sociodemographic factors predict short sleep; and (4) how short sleepers spend their time... - No association between leptin levels and sleep duration or quality in obese adultsKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:2433-5. 2011..In conclusion, contrary to what has been reported in other studies, measures of sleep duration and quality were not associated with leptin levels in our sample of obese adults... - Short sleep duration and incident coronary artery calcificationChristopher Ryan King
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
JAMA 300:2859-66. 2008..Recent studies have found that sleep duration is correlated with established risk factors for calcification including glucose regulation, blood pressure, sex, age, education, and body mass index... - Sleep and the epidemic of obesity in children and adultsEve Van Cauter
Department of Medicine, MC1027, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Eur J Endocrinol 159:S59-66. 2008..Altogether, the evidence points to a possible role of decreased sleep duration in the current epidemic of obesity... - Cross-sectional associations between measures of sleep and markers of glucose metabolism among subjects with and without diabetes: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Sleep StudyKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Diabetes Care 34:1171-6. 2011..To examine whether sleep duration and quality are associated with fasting glucose, fasting insulin, or estimated insulin resistance in a community-based sample of early middle-aged adults... - The impact of sleep consultation prior to a diagnostic polysomnogram on continuous positive airway pressure adherenceSushmita Pamidi
Sleep Disorders Center, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6076 Room M630, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Chest 141:51-7. 2012..Polysomnograms (PSGs) are routinely ordered by nonsleep specialists. However, it is unknown whether a sleep specialist consultation prior to a diagnostic PSG influences adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy... - Loneliness is associated with sleep fragmentation in a communal societyLianne M Kurina
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Sleep 34:1519-26. 2011..One hypothesized mechanism is that lonely individuals do not sleep as well as individuals who feel more connected to others. Our goal was to test whether loneliness is associated with sleep fragmentation or sleep duration... - Depressive symptoms and obesity as predictors of sleepiness and quality of life in patients with REM-related obstructive sleep apnea: cross-sectional analysis of a large clinical populationSushmita Pamidi
Sleep Disorders Center, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sleep Med 12:827-31. 2011..We also assessed if these characteristics were predictors of sleepiness and QoL in all patients with OSA (AHI ≥ 5) as well as in non-stage specific OSA... - Association between sleep duration and body size differs among three Hispanic groupsKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Am J Hum Biol 23:138-41. 2011..Although numerous studies have reported negative associations between sleep duration and body size, no studies of this association have focused on Hispanic groups, which was the goal of this work... - Sociodemographic and cultural determinants of sleep deficiency: implications for cardiometabolic disease riskKristen L Knutson
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC6076, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Soc Sci Med 79:7-15. 2013.... - Sociodemographic and behavioral predictors of bed time and wake time among US adolescents aged 15 to 17 yearsKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Pediatr 154:426-30, 430.e1. 2009..To examine bed times and wake times in US adolescents aged 15 to 17 years using time diaries to determine whether adolescent sleep has changed in recent years and what factors determine bed times and wake times... - Sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk: a review of the epidemiologic evidenceKristen L Knutson
Section of Pulmonary Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave MC 6076, Chicago, IL 60622, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab 24:731-43. 2010..Future prospective epidemiologic studies need to include objective measures of sleep, and intervention studies are needed in order to establish a causal link between impaired or insufficient sleep and cardiometabolic disease risk... - Associations between sleep loss and increased risk of obesity and diabetesKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1129:287-304. 2008..Consistent with the laboratory evidence, multiple epidemiologic studies have shown an association between short sleep and higher body mass index after controlling for a variety of possible confounders... - Sex differences in the association between sleep and body mass index in adolescentsKristen L Knutson
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Pediatr 147:830-4. 2005..To determine whether an association between short sleep duration and increased body mass index (BMI) exists in a sample of U.S. adolescents... - The U-shaped association between sleep and health: the 2 peaks do not mean the same thingKristen L Knutson
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Sleep 29:878-9. 2006