The promise of adolescence: Realizing opportunity for all youth

EP Backes, RJ Bonnie - 2019 - books.google.com
Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indicators in school-aged children and youth

JP Chaput, CE Gray, VJ Poitras… - Applied physiology …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The objective of this systematic review was to examine the relationships between objectively
and subjectively measured sleep duration and various health indicators in children and …

Sleep duration and incidence of obesity in infants, children, and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

MA Miller, M Kruisbrink, J Wallace, C Ji, FP Cappuccio - Sleep, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives To assess the prospective relationship between sleep and obesity
in a paediatric population. Methods We performed a systematic search using PubMed …

The effects of light at night on circadian clocks and metabolism

LK Fonken, RJ Nelson - Endocrine reviews, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Most organisms display endogenously produced∼ 24-hour fluctuations in physiology and
behavior, termed circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythms are driven by a transcriptional …

Sleep patterns and obesity in childhood

AL Miller, JC Lumeng… - Current Opinion in …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Beyond sleep duration, sleep timing patterns may contribute to obesity risk. Biological and
behavioral processes have been proposed as mechanisms that may explain the …

Role of sleep quality in the metabolic syndrome

D Koren, M Dumin, D Gozal - Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Emerging evidence has assigned an important role to sleep as a modulator of metabolic
homeostasis. The impact of variations in sleep duration, sleep-disordered breathing, and …

Mind the gap: race/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity

PM Krueger, EN Reither - Current diabetes reports, 2015 - Springer
Race/ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in obesity are substantial and may
widen in the future. We review nine potential mechanisms that recent research has used to …

Developmental trends in sleep duration in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national United States sample

J Maslowsky, EJ Ozer - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To present normative values of mean sleep duration from adolescence through
young adulthood (ages 13–32 years), prevalence of short (< 6 hours) and long (> 10 hours) …

Sleep: important considerations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease

MA Grandner, P Alfonso-Miller… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Sleep: important considerations for the prevention of cardio... : Current Opinion in Cardiology
Sleep: important considerations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease : Current Opinion …

Overweight and obese adolescent girls: the importance of promoting sensible eating and activity behaviors from the start of the adolescent period

AS Todd, SJ Street, J Ziviani, NM Byrne… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
The adolescent period is associated with changes in eating and activity behaviors in girls.
Less reliance on parental provision and choice of food, coupled with a decrease in …